SimpleNLG - How to get the plural of a noun?

Question

I'm using SimpleNLG 4.4.2 to get plural form for a noun:

final XMLLexicon xmlLexicon = new XMLLexicon();
final WordElement word = xmlLexicon.getWord("apple", LexicalCategory.NOUN);
System.out.println(word);
System.out.println(word.getFeature(LexicalFeature.PLURAL));

However even for this simple example, getFeature returns null instead of apples. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Thanks for making me aware of this library! Based on the comment from biziclop, I came up with this solution:

final XMLLexicon xmlLexicon = new XMLLexicon();
final WordElement word = xmlLexicon.getWord("apple", LexicalCategory.NOUN);
final InflectedWordElement pluralWord = new InflectedWordElement(word);
pluralWord.setPlural(true);
final Realiser realiser = new Realiser(xmlLexicon);
System.out.println(realiser.realise(pluralWord));

which outputs:

apples