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Inflect vs Lemmatize - What's the difference?

inflect | lemmatize |

As verbs the difference between inflect and lemmatize

is that inflect is to cause to curve inwards while lemmatize is (linguistics) to convert an inflected form of a lexeme to a lemma.

inflect

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause to curve inwards.
  • (music) To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.
  • (grammar) To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.

    • Synonyms

    * (to bend or curve inwards) (l)

    Derived terms

    * inflection * inflective * inflexion

    See also

    * conjugate * decline * deflect

    lemmatize

    English

    Alternative forms

    * lemmatise

    Verb

  • (linguistics) To convert an inflected form of a lexeme to a lemma.

    • Derived terms

    * lemmatizer * lemmatization