Lemmatization

Okay kiddo, let's talk about lemmatization! So imagine you have a bunch of words, like "running," "ran," and "runs." They all have the same basic meaning, right? They all involve someone or something moving their legs really fast. Well, lemmatization is a way to group those words together and treat them as one word with the same meaning.

Imagine you're playing with building blocks. You have red blocks, blue blocks, and green blocks. But all of these blocks are still blocks, right? They're all made of the same material and serve the same purpose. So you can group them together and say "these are all blocks." That's kind of like what lemmatization does - it groups similar words together based on their basic meaning.

Now, there are some technical things that go into lemmatization. It involves looking at the form of the word and figuring out what the base form, or "lemma," of the word is. So in our example, the lemma of "ran," "running," and "runs" would be "run." This can be really helpful in language processing, because it means we can analyze texts and understand what they're talking about more easily.

So there you have it, kiddo - lemmatization is like grouping together blocks of different colors because they're all still blocks, and it helps us understand words better by figuring out what their basic form is. Hope that helps!