lexim
Lexim is a term used in linguistics and natural language processing to denote a unit of lexical information that is intended to be more granular than a traditional lexeme. The term is not widely standardized and appears primarily in theoretical discussions, experimental annotation schemes, and some exploratory lexical resources.
A lexim is defined as the smallest unit that encodes not only a word's surface form but
In practical use, lexims could support more precise lexical annotation, sense disambiguation, and multilingual lexicons by
Relation to established terms and status: lexim is related to the concepts of lexeme and lemma, and