Intermediate · NLP

Morphological Analysis

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TL;DR. The process of analyzing the internal structure of words and their constituent morphemes.

Technical Definition

The process of analyzing the internal structure of words and their constituent morphemes.

How it works

Morphological analysis breaks down words into their base forms (lemmas) and affixes (prefixes, suffixes) to understand their grammatical properties and meaning. For example, 'unhappiness' can be broken into 'un-','happy','-ness'. This step helps in lemmatization, part-of-speech tagging, and understanding word variations for NLP tasks.