RE: Corpora: lemma vs lexeme

Mcenery, Tony (eiaamme@exchange.lancs.ac.uk)
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:51:01 -0000

Hi Paul

> I did a Ph.D. with Sinclair at Birmingham in the early 90's which
> revolved around this topic. At that time, there were no efficient POS
> taggers and so lemmatization could not be carried out on a POS tagged
> text.
[Mcenery, Tony]
Sorry for the anglo-centric joke, but I must say "Shome mishtake
shurely"? There were, I have good reason to believe, efficient POS taggers
available for English from the mid-80s. Automated lemmatisation of English was
also being undertaken around that time (at least). Sorry to nitpick.

Tony