1. to reduce a word to its lemma or base form, especially in computational linguistics and natural language processing
Usage: technical; linguistics

Examples

• The software will lemmatize all verbs in the text to their infinitive forms.
• To improve search accuracy, the search engine lemmatizes user queries before matching them against the database.
• Linguists lemmatize words to group different inflections together for analysis.
• The natural language processing pipeline lemmatizes nouns to their singular base forms.
• When you lemmatize 'running,' 'runs,' and 'ran,' they all reduce to the lemma 'run'.