radikelista

Radikelista is a term used in some linguistic and computational contexts to describe an inventory of word roots, or radicals, within a language. In this sense, a radikelista serves as a resource for morphological analysis, lexicography, and natural language processing. The root (radix) is considered the base form from which inflected or derived words are created. A radikelista typically records, for each entry, the root form, part of speech, semantic field, and common derivatives or affixes. It may also include frequency data, orthographic variants, and cross-linguistic cognates.

The concept emphasizes roots as the core units of meaning that connect related words. It is distinct from but related to lemmas and stems: a radikelista focuses on the canonical root rather than a single inflected form or a specific lemma entry. In practice, radikelista can be compiled automatically from corpora through lemmatization and stemming, or assembled manually by lexicographers. The scope of a radikelista can vary from a compact, language-specific inventory to a large, cross-dialect catalog.

Applications and relevance include aiding morphological parsers, spell-checkers, search and information retrieval, machine translation, and language learning tools. By providing a structured map of roots and their derivatives, radikelista supports efficient word-form analysis and generation, especially for highly inflected languages.

See also: lemmas, stems, lemmatization, stemming, morpheme, lexicon, corpus linguistics.