Definitions

1. verb

to convert a word into its base or dictionary form, especially for the purpose of indexing or natural language processing.

“The software was designed to lemmatize the vast corpus of text data.”

2. noun

the process of converting a word into its base or dictionary form.

“The lemmatization of the text data improved the accuracy of the search results.”

3. verb (transitive)

to reduce a word to its base or dictionary form, especially for the purpose of indexing or natural language processing.

“The programmer lemmatized the text data to prepare it for analysis.”