Lemmatization

Ray Liere (lierer@mail.CS.ORST.EDU)
Wed, 8 Nov 1995 16:36:12 -0800

I am relatively new to natural language processing -- I am doing
research in the application of machine learning to information
retrieval.

I have encountered the word "lemmatize", but no definition. I believe
(from context) that it is a very generalized form of stemming ... ?
But I would like to know specifically what it is and some details
about common techniques for lemmatization.

I have tried to find out this information on my own, but am obviously
looking in all of the wrong places. The few references I did find
assume that one knows the details, and argue whether or not it is good
compared to other methods, etc.

Could someone familiar with lemmatization provide a definition, or example,
or suggest a good reference?

Email if you prefer, and I will post a summary.

Thanks.

Ray Liere
lierer@mail.cs.orst.edu