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Lemmatization

nounverified·updated Aug 28, 2026

grouping together words with the same root or lemma but with different inflections or derivatives of meaning so they can be analyzed as one item.

What is Lemmatization?

Senses

Natural Language Processing

the process of grouping together the different inflected forms of a word so they can be analyzed as a single item.

Lemmatization

in natural language processing[, ...] working with words according to their root lexical components

Classifications

Entity Type

Process72%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

plural
Lemmatizations
possessive
Lemmatization's
pluralpossessive
Lemmatizations'