Definition, Meaning & Synonyms
lemmatize
verb
/ˈlɛm.ə.taɪz/
Definition
To reduce a word to its base or root form, known as a lemma, so that it can be analyzed without inflectional endings.
Examples
- Before analyzing the text data, we need to lemmatize all the verbs.
- The software automatically lemmatizes words so that the analysis is more accurate.
Meaning
Lemmatization is a process used in natural language processing to simplify words by converting them into their base forms. For example, the words ‘running’ and ‘ran’ can both be lemmatized to ‘run’.
Synonyms
- Root
- Base form
- Conjugate
