Citation Form

See: Dictionary Entry Headword, Lexeme Lemma.

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References

2010

• (WordNet, 2010) ⇒ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=entry%20word
  • S: (n) citation form, main entry word, entry word (the form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary)

2009

• (Jurafsky & Martin, 2009) ⇒ Daniel Jurafsky, and James H. Martin. (2000). “Speech and Language Processing, 2nd edition." Pearson Education.
  • QUOTE: For the purposes of lexical semantics, particularly for dictionaries and thesauruses, we represent a lexeme by a lemma. A lemma or citation form is the grammatical form that is used to represent a lexeme; thus, carpet is the lemma for carpets. The lemma or citation form for sing, sang, sung is sing. In many language the infinitive form is used as the lemma for the verb; thus in Spansih dormir "to sleep" is the lemma for the verb duermes "you sleep". The specific forms sung or carpets or sign or duermes are called wordforms.

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