Understanding Lemmatization

Let’s learn what lemmatization is and how it works in spaCy.

What is lemmatization?

A lemma is the base form of a token. We can think of a lemma as the form in which the token appears in a dictionary. For instance, the lemma of eating is eat; the lemma of eats is eat; ate similarly maps to eat. Lemmatization is the process of reducing the word forms to their lemmas. The following code is a quick example of how to do lemmatization with spaCy:

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