Croatian Lemmatization Server
Marko Tadić · 2005
The need for lemmatization in inflectionally rich languages is indisputable: it is applicable for the whole range of procedures — from textsearch, up to parsing. From two predominant approaches to lemmatization: 1) algorithmic (generally rule-based and realized with FSA) and 2) relational (generally data-driven and realized with databases), this paper opted for the latter. The reason is that formal-grammar approaches to Croatian morphology are rare and limited just to a part of morphological system. The other reason is that the generator for Croatian has already been developed (Tadić 1994) as well as Croatian Morphological Lexicon (CML) (Tadić & Fulgosi 2003). The idea was to offer an on-line lemmatization, POS/MSD service using CML v 4.5 as the back-end. The Croatian Lemmatization Server (CLS) is available at