Concept - Morphology
Definition (s.32): the study of how words are built from morphemes, the small meaningful units that make up words. E.g. un-like-ly contains three morphemes.
- Stem: main part of a word that stays the same when endings are added; writ is the stem of writes, writing, written (s.32).
- Affix: prefix or suffix adhering to a stem, often with a grammatical function; e.g. the -s of likes (s.32).
- Inflectional stemming = “morphological analysis”: normalisation limited to grammatical variants (singular/plural, present/past) (s.33).
Used by: Concept - Stemming, Concept - Lemmatization.
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Concept - Stemming | Concept - Lemmatization | Concept - Text Normalization