non-lemma

noun

Any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.

Meanings

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

plural non-lemmas · plural non-lemmata · alternative nonlemma

  1. rarehuman sciencesAny form of a lexeme that is not its lemma.

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

    2010, “cayorodriguez” (username), “Lemmatization module in NLTK” in nltk-dev, Usenet
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    According to Schmauder (1991) they had a narrow range of frequency of occurrence (our nonlemma count yields an average of 68; Francis & Kucera, 1982).

    1991, Lewis P. Shapiro et al., “Verb effects during sentence processing”, in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, volume XVII, № 5, pages 986-987

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

    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

    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.

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

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

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

Origin

Translations

Hungarian ragozott/ragosalak (szó)
  • ragozott/ragosalak (szó)any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma
Korean 활용형, 변화형
  • 활용형 (hwaryonghyeong)any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma
  • 변화형 (byeonhwahyeong)any form of a lexeme that is not its lemma
Polish nielemma
  • nielemmaany form of a lexeme that is not its lemma
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APA

non-lemma. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/non-lemma

MLA

“non-lemma.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/non-lemma. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “non-lemma,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/non-lemma.

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