Lemmatization

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  lemmatization \lem`ma*tiz*a"tion\
     (l[e^]m`m[.a]*t[i^]z*[=a]"sh[u^]n), v. t.
     The act or process of lemmatizing; conversion into a
     lemma[2].
     [PJC]
  


     Note: Lemmatization of search words in a computerized
           Information Retrieval System may allow more effective
           retrieval of documents of interest to the searcher.
           [PJC]