1. the process of reducing words to their base or dictionary form (lemma) in natural language processing and computational linguistics
Usage: technical; computing/linguistics

Examples

• The software is lemmatizing the text by converting all verb forms to their infinitive base.
• Lemmatizing helps search engines understand that 'running,' 'runs,' and 'ran' are related to the lemma 'run.'
• Natural language processing systems often begin by lemmatizing words to improve accuracy.
• The algorithm is lemmatizing the corpus to reduce vocabulary size and improve computational efficiency.
• Lemmatizing different word forms allows the program to treat them as a single meaningful unit.