verb
- to reduce a word to its lemma or base form, especially in computational linguistics and natural language processing
Usage: technical; linguistics; computing
Examples
- The software lemmatizes all inflected forms of a word to improve search accuracy.
- Natural language processing systems often lemmatize text before analyzing it.
- The algorithm lemmatizes 'running,' 'runs,' and 'ran' to the base form 'run.'
- Lemmatizing helps reduce vocabulary size in machine learning models.
- The text processor lemmatizes words to standardize them for comparison.