English

Alternative forms

• nonlemma, non lemma rare

Noun

non-lemma ‎(plural non-lemmas or non-lemmata)

1. (lexicography, rare) Any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.
   • 1991, Lewis P. Shapiro et al., “Verb effects during sentence processing” in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, volume XVII, № 5, pages 986–987:

     According to Schmauder (1991) they had a narrow range of frequency of occurrence (our nonlemma count yields an average of 68; Francis & Kucera, 1982).

   • 2000, Arantxa Diaz de Ilarraza et al., Building a Lexicon for an English–Basque Machine Translation System from heterogeneous wide coverage dictionaries, § 5.1, page 4, Table 2:

     Prep. … Prenominal adjectives … Non lemmas … Basque multiword … English multiwords … English unknown … Others
     11% … 21% … 7% … 5% … 17% … 16% … 21%

   • 2002, Christian Lehmann, “Structure of a comprehensive presentation of a language” in Basic Materials in Minority Languages, ed. Tasaku Tsunoda, § 4.3, page 17^?:

     If the database is to be printed out in the form of a dictionary, non-lemmas can be generated from the items contained in these fields.

   • 2010, “cayorodriguez” (username), “Lemmatization module in NLTK” in nltk-dev, Usenet:

     Initialize lemmatizer by providing dictionary file. If unknown, leave as non lemmata not found.

   • 2012, Maciej Piasecki et al., “Recognition of Polish Derivational Relations Based on Supervised Learning Scheme” in LREC 2012, § 2.2, page 918/2:

     In step 3, non-words or non-lemmas, that are often generated by the guesser modules, are filtered out from the result.

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