Lemmatization: Smarter Base Forms
Reduce words to real dictionary forms.
A Smarter Reducer
Stemming chops blindly, but lemmatization reduces a word to its real dictionary base form, called the lemma. The result is always a proper word. 📖
Lemma vs Stem
Stemming turns studies into studi, but lemmatization returns the clean lemma study. That tidy, valid output is the big win of lemmatization.
All lessons in this course
- Why Case and Spacing Matter
- Lowercasing and Stripping Whitespace
- Stemming: Chopping to the Root
- Lemmatization: Smarter Base Forms