Word Processing

20 - Lemmatization

Lemmatization usually refers to rewriting a word to its base form (lemma) properly.

Lemmatization usually refers to rewriting a word to its base form properly, with the use of a vocabulary and morphological analysis of words, normally aiming to remove inflectional endings only and to return the base or dictionary form of a word, which is known as the lemma.

Word Lemmatization example (source)



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