In natural language processing, Lemmatization is the operation of grouping together the inflected forms of a word so they can be analyzed as a single item, identified by the word’s lemma, or dictionary form.
Example: In English, run, runs, ran and running are different forms of run, the lemma by which all four terms are indexed.
Check the basics of NLP with NLTK to program Lemmatization in Python.
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