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copied!<p>You may want the <em>derivationally related forms</em> from <a href="http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?o2=&o0=1&o8=1&o1=1&o7=&o5=&o9=&o6=&o3=&o4=&s=engineer&i=8&h=10000010000#c" rel="nofollow">WordNet</a>. There are multiple WordNet APIs that can help you achieve that (in Python, Java and Perl ... I don't know about other languages).</p> <p>What you are actually searching for are <em>inflections</em> of words. English happens to be a pretty notorious natural language for systematically inferring inflections. The derivationally related forms in WordNet are not going to be exhaustive. I think you are better off looking at digital (online or offline) English dictionaries, and extracting the inflections from the gloss. The semi-structured nature of dictionary glosses will make this quite simple. For example, you can look at <a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/engineer" rel="nofollow">the definition of 'engineer' at the Free Online Dictionary</a>.</p> <p>You may also want to try AGID on <a href="http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">Kevin's Word List Page</a>. I have never used it myself (because I ended up using a dictionary as explained above), but it seems to be doing what you want.</p> <p><strong>Finally, as far as a Ruby library is concerned</strong>, I would recommend the <a href="http://www.deveiate.org/projects/Linguistics/" rel="nofollow">Linguistics</a> project. I think what you want is in their <a href="http://www.deveiate.org/code/linguistics/Linguistics/EN/Conjugation.html" rel="nofollow">Conjugation</a> module. I had stopped visiting their page a while ago because the project appeared to be dormant. But it seems those guys have picked it up again.</p>

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