lemmatize
verb [ T ] language specialized uk/ˈlem.ə.taɪz/ us/ˈlem.ə.taɪz/ (UK usually lemmatise)
把（文中的词）按屈折变化形式（或异体形式）进行归类
to reduce the different forms of a word to one single form, for example, reducing "builds", "building",or "built" to the lemma "build"
Compounds were lemmatized, that is, inflectional differences were disregarded. 把复合词按屈折变化形式归类，也就是忽略具体屈折变化而将之归为一组。
We used a lemmatised frequency list for the 8000 most frequent words in English. 我们把英文中8000个最常见词按屈折变化形式频率做了一个列表。
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- The word forms are lemmatised.
- A computer program has been developed to automatically lemmatize this list of words.
- We can't lemmatise "'nt" as "not" unless we have previously tokenised "'nt" as a separate unit for analysis.