lemmatize
/ˈlɛmətaɪz/
verb
- To group together the inflected forms of a word under a single base form (lemma), especially in computational linguistics or dictionary-making.
- The software can lemmatize all verb forms so they appear under 'be'.
- The search engine uses an algorithm to lemmatize user queries.
- To build the dictionary, we had to lemmatize thousands of words.