lemmatizev.
/ˈlɛmətʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈlɛməˌtaɪz/ transitive. To sort (words as they occur in a text) so as to group together those that are inflected or variant forms of the same word.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > lexicography > [verb (transitive)] > sort into lemmas
lemmatize1967
1967 Computers & Humanities 2 78 We have..tested programs for concordances, for lemmatizing with computer dictionary, and for transcribing from historical to phonologic alphabet.
1971 J. B. Carroll et al. Word Frequency Bk. p. xiii The AHI Corpus is coded for capitalization. It is not parsed or lemmatized.
1971 A. J. Aitken in R. A. Wisbey Computer in Lit. & Ling. Res. 13 From a text prepared in this way the computer could deliver an output resembling a fully sorted collection for a traditional dictionary (already ordered and lemmatized) without further human attention.
1973 Computers & Humanities 7 132 The vocabulary lists were next lemmatized by hand.
1973 Computers & Humanities 7 132 The computer program made no attempt to lemmatize words or to distinguish homographs, but simply counted the number of occurrences of each distinct word-type.
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ˈlemmatized adj.
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1969 Computers & Humanities 4 134 Method: Punching frequency lists and lemmatized texts; transferring to tapes; [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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