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lemmatization

/lɛməˌtɪzɪˈeɪʃən/ noun · British & US
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What does lemmatization mean?

noun

The process of reducing a word to its base or dictionary form, often by removing inflectional endings. This is typically done to normalize words and facilitate natural language processing.

Example

"The lemmatization algorithm was used to reduce the words 'running', 'runs', and 'runner' to their base form 'run'."

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