LEMMATISE Meaning and
Definition
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Lemmatise is a verb that refers to the process of transforming a word to its base or dictionary form, known as a lemma. Lemmatisation is commonly used in computational linguistics and natural language processing to convert words into a standardized form for analysis or comparison.
During the lemmatisation process, various linguistic transformations are applied to words to bring them to their most basic form. This involves stripping off inflections, such as plurals, verb conjugations, and possessive forms, to identify the root or lemma of the word. For example, lemmatisation would convert the words "cats" and "mice" to their lemma "cat" and "mouse," respectively.
Lemmatisation is widely used in language technologies, including search engines, machine translation, and text analysis. It helps in consolidating different variations of words and improving search accuracy, topic extraction, and sentiment analysis by treating different forms of the same word as a single entity.
One of the main advantages of lemmatisation over stemming, another word normalization technique, is that it produces a valid lemma that can be found in a dictionary. Stemming, on the other hand, often results in truncated or partial words that may not be valid. However, lemmatisation might be computationally more intensive due to its reliance on linguistic knowledge and the need to access a dictionary or lemma mapping.
Etymology of LEMMATISE
The word "lemmatize" is derived from the noun "lemma" combined with the suffix "-ize".
The noun "lemma" originates from the Greek word "lemmatos", meaning "something taken (up/down)", or "a premise". In linguistics, a lemma refers to the base or dictionary form of a word, which represents its canonical or citation form. It is the form under which a word can be classified and analyzed.
The suffix "-ize" comes from the Greek verb-forming element "-izein", which means "to render or make". It is commonly used to form English verbs that mean "to make or become something".
By combining "lemma" and "-ize", the word "lemmatize" was formed to mean the process of reducing or transforming inflected words to their base or dictionary form (lemma).
Conjugate verb Lemmatise
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IMPERATIVE
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