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Part-of-speech utilities for node.js based on the WordNet database.
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Numbers recognized as adjectives #13

Closed 26medias closed 7 years ago

26medias commented 8 years ago 
wordpos.isAdjective("17", function(bool) {
    console.log(bool); // true
});
wordpos.isAdjective("two", function(bool) {
    console.log(bool); // true
});

Why are numbers recognized as adjectives?

A lot of verbs are also classified as adjectives.

moos commented 8 years ago

Because they are. That's how the underlying WordNet database works.

You can filter them out yourself before looking up.