Title:	Text Mining Package
Version:	0.7-16
Date:	2025-02-19
Depends:	R (≥ 3.4.0), NLP (≥ 0.2-0)
Imports:	Rcpp, parallel, slam (≥ 0.1-37), stats, tools, utils, graphics, xml2
LinkingTo:	BH, Rcpp
Suggests:	antiword, filehash, methods, pdftools, Rcampdf, Rgraphviz, Rpoppler, SnowballC, testthat, tm.lexicon.GeneralInquirer
Description:	A framework for text mining applications within R.
License:	GPL-3
URL:	https://tm.r-forge.r-project.org/
Additional_repositories:	https://datacube.wu.ac.at
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Packaged:	2025-02-19 07:09:03 UTC; hornik
Author:	Ingo Feinerer [aut], Kurt Hornik [aut, cre], Artifex Software, Inc. [ctb, cph] (pdf_info.ps taken from GPL Ghostscript)
Maintainer:	Kurt Hornik <Kurt.Hornik@R-project.org>
Repository:	CRAN
Date/Publication:	2025-02-19 09:00:09 UTC

Corpora

Description

Representing and computing on corpora.

Details

Corpora are collections of documents containing (natural language) text. In packages which employ the infrastructure provided by package tm, such corpora are represented via the virtual S3 class Corpus: such packages then provide S3 corpus classes extending the virtual base class (such as VCorpus provided by package tm itself).

All extension classes must provide accessors to extract subsets ([), individual documents ([[), and metadata (meta). The function length must return the number of documents, and as.list must construct a list holding the documents.

A corpus can have two types of metadata (accessible via meta). Corpus metadata contains corpus specific metadata in form of tag-value pairs. Document level metadata contains document specific metadata but is stored in the corpus as a data frame. Document level metadata is typically used for semantic reasons (e.g., classifications of documents form an own entity due to some high-level information like the range of possible values) or for performance reasons (single access instead of extracting metadata of each document).

The function Corpus is a convenience alias to SimpleCorpus or VCorpus, depending on the arguments provided.

See Also

SimpleCorpus, VCorpus, and PCorpus for the corpora classes provided by package tm.

DCorpus for a distributed corpus class provided by package tm.plugin.dc.

Data Frame Source

Description

Create a data frame source.

Usage

DataframeSource(x)

Arguments

Details

A data frame source interprets each row of the data frame x as a document. The first column must be named "doc_id" and contain a unique string identifier for each document. The second column must be named "text" and contain a UTF-8 encoded string representing the document's content. Optional additional columns are used as document level metadata.

Value

An object inheriting from DataframeSource, SimpleSource, and Source.

See Also

Source for basic information on the source infrastructure employed by package tm, and meta for types of metadata.

readtext for reading in a text in multiple formats suitable to be processed by DataframeSource.

Examples

docs <- data.frame(doc_id = c("doc_1", "doc_2"),
                   text = c("This is a text.", "This another one."),
                   dmeta1 = 1:2, dmeta2 = letters[1:2],
                   stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
(ds <- DataframeSource(docs))
x <- Corpus(ds)
inspect(x)
meta(x)

Directory Source

Description

Create a directory source.

Usage

DirSource(directory = ".",
          encoding = "",
          pattern = NULL,
          recursive = FALSE,
          ignore.case = FALSE,
          mode = "text")

Arguments

Details

A directory source acquires a list of files via dir and interprets each file as a document.

Value

An object inheriting from DirSource, SimpleSource, and Source.

See Also

Source for basic information on the source infrastructure employed by package tm.

Encoding and iconv on encodings.

Examples

DirSource(system.file("texts", "txt", package = "tm"))

Access Document IDs and Terms

Description

Accessing document IDs, terms, and their number of a term-document matrix or document-term matrix.

Usage

Docs(x)
nDocs(x)
nTerms(x)
Terms(x)

Arguments

Value

For Docs and Terms, a character vector with document IDs and terms, respectively.

For nDocs and nTerms, an integer with the number of document IDs and terms, respectively.

Examples

data("crude")
tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(crude)[1:10,1:20]
Docs(tdm)
nDocs(tdm)
nTerms(tdm)
Terms(tdm)

Permanent Corpora

Description

Create permanent corpora.

Usage

PCorpus(x,
        readerControl = list(reader = reader(x), language = "en"),
        dbControl = list(dbName = "", dbType = "DB1"))

Arguments

Details

A permanent corpus stores documents outside of R in a database. Since multiple PCorpus R objects with the same underlying database can exist simultaneously in memory, changes in one get propagated to all corresponding objects (in contrast to the default R semantics).

Value

An object inheriting from PCorpus and Corpus.

See Also

Corpus for basic information on the corpus infrastructure employed by package tm.

VCorpus provides an implementation with volatile storage semantics.

Examples

txt <- system.file("texts", "txt", package = "tm")
## Not run: 
PCorpus(DirSource(txt),
        dbControl = list(dbName = "pcorpus.db", dbType = "DB1"))
## End(Not run)

Plain Text Documents

Description

Create plain text documents.

Usage

PlainTextDocument(x = character(0),
                  author = character(0),
                  datetimestamp = as.POSIXlt(Sys.time(), tz = "GMT"),
                  description = character(0),
                  heading = character(0),
                  id = character(0),
                  language = character(0),
                  origin = character(0),
                  ...,
                  meta = NULL,
                  class = NULL)

Arguments

Value

An object inheriting from class, PlainTextDocument and TextDocument.

See Also

TextDocument for basic information on the text document infrastructure employed by package tm.

Examples

(ptd <- PlainTextDocument("A simple plain text document",
                          heading = "Plain text document",
                          id = basename(tempfile()),
                          language = "en"))
meta(ptd)

Readers

Description

Creating readers.

Usage

getReaders()

Details

Readers are functions for extracting textual content and metadata out of elements delivered by a Source, and for constructing a TextDocument. A reader must accept following arguments in its signature:

elem

a named list with the components content and uri (as delivered by a Source via getElem or pGetElem).

language

a character string giving the language.

id

a character giving a unique identifier for the created text document.

The element elem is typically provided by a source whereas the language and the identifier are normally provided by a corpus constructor (for the case that elem$content does not give information on these two essential items).

In case a reader expects configuration arguments we can use a function generator. A function generator is indicated by inheriting from class FunctionGenerator and function. It allows us to process additional arguments, store them in an environment, return a reader function with the well-defined signature described above, and still be able to access the additional arguments via lexical scoping. All corpus constructors in package tm check the reader function for being a function generator and if so apply it to yield the reader with the expected signature.

Value

For getReaders(), a character vector with readers provided by package tm.

See Also

readDOC, readPDF, readPlain, readRCV1, readRCV1asPlain, readReut21578XML, readReut21578XMLasPlain, and readXML.

Simple Corpora

Description

Create simple corpora.

Usage

SimpleCorpus(x, control = list(language = "en"))

Arguments

Details

A simple corpus is fully kept in memory. Compared to a VCorpus, it is optimized for the most common usage scenario: importing plain texts from files in a directory or directly from a vector in R, preprocessing and transforming the texts, and finally exporting them to a term-document matrix. It adheres to the Corpus API. However, it takes internally various shortcuts to boost performance and minimize memory pressure; consequently it operates only under the following contraints:

• only DataframeSource, DirSource and VectorSource are supported,

• no custom readers, i.e., each document is read in and stored as plain text (as a string, i.e., a character vector of length one),

• transformations applied via tm_map must be able to process character vectors and return character vectors (of the same length),

• no lazy transformations in tm_map,

• no meta data for individual documents (i.e., no "local" in meta).

Value

An object inheriting from SimpleCorpus and Corpus.

See Also

Corpus for basic information on the corpus infrastructure employed by package tm.

VCorpus provides an implementation with volatile storage semantics, and PCorpus provides an implementation with permanent storage semantics.

Examples

txt <- system.file("texts", "txt", package = "tm")
(ovid <- SimpleCorpus(DirSource(txt, encoding = "UTF-8"),
                      control = list(language = "lat")))

Sources

Description

Creating and accessing sources.

Usage

SimpleSource(encoding = "",
             length = 0,
             position = 0,
             reader = readPlain,
             ...,
             class)
getSources()
## S3 method for class 'SimpleSource'
close(con, ...)
## S3 method for class 'SimpleSource'
eoi(x)
## S3 method for class 'DataframeSource'
getMeta(x)
## S3 method for class 'DataframeSource'
getElem(x)
## S3 method for class 'DirSource'
getElem(x)
## S3 method for class 'URISource'
getElem(x)
## S3 method for class 'VectorSource'
getElem(x)
## S3 method for class 'XMLSource'
getElem(x)
## S3 method for class 'SimpleSource'
length(x)
## S3 method for class 'SimpleSource'
open(con, ...)
## S3 method for class 'DataframeSource'
pGetElem(x)
## S3 method for class 'DirSource'
pGetElem(x)
## S3 method for class 'URISource'
pGetElem(x)
## S3 method for class 'VectorSource'
pGetElem(x)
## S3 method for class 'SimpleSource'
reader(x)
## S3 method for class 'SimpleSource'
stepNext(x)

Arguments

Details

Sources abstract input locations, like a directory, a connection, or simply an R vector, in order to acquire content in a uniform way. In packages which employ the infrastructure provided by package tm, such sources are represented via the virtual S3 class Source: such packages then provide S3 source classes extending the virtual base class (such as DirSource provided by package tm itself).

All extension classes must provide implementations for the functions close, eoi, getElem, length, open, reader, and stepNext. For parallel element access the (optional) function pGetElem must be provided as well. If document level metadata is available, the (optional) function getMeta must be implemented.

The functions open and close open and close the source, respectively. eoi indicates end of input. getElem fetches the element at the current position, whereas pGetElem retrieves all elements in parallel at once. The function length gives the number of elements. reader returns a default reader for processing elements. stepNext increases the position in the source to acquire the next element.

The function SimpleSource provides a simple reference implementation and can be used when creating custom sources.

Value

For SimpleSource, an object inheriting from class, SimpleSource, and Source.

For getSources, a character vector with sources provided by package tm.

open and close return the opened and closed source, respectively.

For eoi, a logical indicating if the end of input of the source is reached.

For getElem a named list with the components content holding the document and uri giving a uniform resource identifier (e.g., a file path or URL; NULL if not applicable or unavailable). For pGetElem a list of such named lists.

For length, an integer for the number of elements.

For reader, a function for the default reader.

See Also

DataframeSource, DirSource, URISource, VectorSource, and XMLSource.

Term-Document Matrix

Description

Constructs or coerces to a term-document matrix or a document-term matrix.

Usage

TermDocumentMatrix(x, control = list())
DocumentTermMatrix(x, control = list())
as.TermDocumentMatrix(x, ...)
as.DocumentTermMatrix(x, ...)

Arguments

Value

An object of class TermDocumentMatrix or class DocumentTermMatrix (both inheriting from a simple triplet matrix in package slam) containing a sparse term-document matrix or document-term matrix. The attribute weighting contains the weighting applied to the matrix.

See Also

termFreq for available local control options.

Examples

data("crude")
tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(crude,
                          control = list(removePunctuation = TRUE,
                                         stopwords = TRUE))
dtm <- DocumentTermMatrix(crude,
                          control = list(weighting =
                                         function(x)
                                         weightTfIdf(x, normalize =
                                                     FALSE),
                                         stopwords = TRUE))
inspect(tdm[202:205, 1:5])
inspect(tdm[c("price", "prices", "texas"), c("127", "144", "191", "194")])
inspect(dtm[1:5, 273:276])

if(requireNamespace("SnowballC")) {
    s <- SimpleCorpus(VectorSource(unlist(lapply(crude, as.character))))
    m <- TermDocumentMatrix(s,
                            control = list(removeNumbers = TRUE,
                                           stopwords = TRUE,
                                           stemming = TRUE))
    inspect(m[c("price", "texa"), c("127", "144", "191", "194")])
}

Text Documents

Description

Representing and computing on text documents.

Details

Text documents are documents containing (natural language) text. The tm package employs the infrastructure provided by package NLP and represents text documents via the virtual S3 class TextDocument. Actual S3 text document classes then extend the virtual base class (such as PlainTextDocument).

All extension classes must provide an as.character method which extracts the natural language text in documents of the respective classes in a “suitable” (not necessarily structured) form, as well as content and meta methods for accessing the (possibly raw) document content and metadata.

See Also

PlainTextDocument, and XMLTextDocument for the text document classes provided by package tm.

TextDocument for text documents in package NLP.

Uniform Resource Identifier Source

Description

Create a uniform resource identifier source.

Usage

URISource(x, encoding = "", mode = "text")

Arguments

Details

A uniform resource identifier source interprets each URI as a document.

Value

An object inheriting from URISource, SimpleSource, and Source.

See Also

Source for basic information on the source infrastructure employed by package tm.

Encoding and iconv on encodings.

Examples

loremipsum <- system.file("texts", "loremipsum.txt", package = "tm")
ovid <- system.file("texts", "txt", "ovid_1.txt", package = "tm")
us <- URISource(sprintf("file://%s", c(loremipsum, ovid)))
inspect(VCorpus(us))

Volatile Corpora

Description

Create volatile corpora.

Usage

VCorpus(x, readerControl = list(reader = reader(x), language = "en"))
as.VCorpus(x)

Arguments

Details

A volatile corpus is fully kept in memory and thus all changes only affect the corresponding R object.

Value

An object inheriting from VCorpus and Corpus.

See Also

Corpus for basic information on the corpus infrastructure employed by package tm.

PCorpus provides an implementation with permanent storage semantics.

Examples

reut21578 <- system.file("texts", "crude", package = "tm")
VCorpus(DirSource(reut21578, mode = "binary"),
        list(reader = readReut21578XMLasPlain))

Vector Source

Description

Create a vector source.

Usage

VectorSource(x)

Arguments

Details

A vector source interprets each element of the vector x as a document.

Value

An object inheriting from VectorSource, SimpleSource, and Source.

See Also

Source for basic information on the source infrastructure employed by package tm.

Examples

docs <- c("This is a text.", "This another one.")
(vs <- VectorSource(docs))
inspect(VCorpus(vs))

Weighting Function

Description

Construct a weighting function for term-document matrices.

Usage

WeightFunction(x, name, acronym)

Arguments

Value

An object of class WeightFunction which extends the class function representing a weighting function.

Examples

weightCutBin <- WeightFunction(function(m, cutoff) m > cutoff,
                               "binary with cutoff", "bincut")

XML Source

Description

Create an XML source.

Usage

XMLSource(x, parser = xml_contents, reader)

Arguments

Value

An object inheriting from XMLSource, SimpleSource, and Source.

See Also

Source for basic information on the source infrastructure employed by package tm.

Vignette 'Extensions: How to Handle Custom File Formats', and readXML.

XML Text Documents

Description

Create XML text documents.

Usage

XMLTextDocument(x = xml_missing(),
                author = character(0),
                datetimestamp = as.POSIXlt(Sys.time(), tz = "GMT"),
                description = character(0),
                heading = character(0),
                id = character(0),
                language = character(0),
                origin = character(0),
                ...,
                meta = NULL)

Arguments

Value

An object inheriting from XMLTextDocument and TextDocument.

See Also

TextDocument for basic information on the text document infrastructure employed by package tm.

Examples

xml <- system.file("extdata", "order-doc.xml", package = "xml2")
(xtd <- XMLTextDocument(xml2::read_xml(xml),
                        heading = "XML text document",
                        id = xml,
                        language = "en"))
content(xtd)
meta(xtd)

ZIP File Source

Description

Create a ZIP file source.

Usage

ZipSource(zipfile,
          pattern = NULL,
          recursive = FALSE,
          ignore.case = FALSE,
          mode = "text")

Arguments

Details

A ZIP file source extracts a compressed ZIP file via unzip and interprets each file as a document.

Value

An object inheriting from ZipSource, SimpleSource, and Source.

See Also

Source for basic information on the source infrastructure employed by package tm.

Examples

zipfile <- tempfile()
files <- Sys.glob(file.path(system.file("texts", "txt", package = "tm"), "*"))
zip(zipfile, files)
zipfile <- paste0(zipfile, ".zip")
Corpus(ZipSource(zipfile, recursive = TRUE))[[1]]
file.remove(zipfile)

Explore Corpus Term Frequency Characteristics

Description

Explore Zipf's law and Heaps' law, two empirical laws in linguistics describing commonly observed characteristics of term frequency distributions in corpora.

Usage

Zipf_plot(x, type = "l", ...)
Heaps_plot(x, type = "l", ...)

Arguments

Details

Zipf's law (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law) states that given some corpus of natural language utterances, the frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table, or, more generally, that the pmf of the term frequencies is of the form c k^{-\beta}, where k is the rank of the term (taken from the most to the least frequent one). We can conveniently explore the degree to which the law holds by plotting the logarithm of the frequency against the logarithm of the rank, and inspecting the goodness of fit of a linear model.

Heaps' law (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaps%27_law) states that the vocabulary size V (i.e., the number of different terms employed) grows polynomially with the text size T (the total number of terms in the texts), so that V = c T^\beta. We can conveniently explore the degree to which the law holds by plotting \log(V) against \log(T), and inspecting the goodness of fit of a linear model.

Value

The coefficients of the fitted linear model. As a side effect, the corresponding plot is produced.

Examples

data("acq")
m <- DocumentTermMatrix(acq)
Zipf_plot(m)
Heaps_plot(m)

50 Exemplary News Articles from the Reuters-21578 Data Set of Topic acq

Description

This dataset holds 50 news articles with additional meta information from the Reuters-21578 data set. All documents belong to the topic acq dealing with corporate acquisitions.

Usage

data("acq")

Format

A VCorpus of 50 text documents.

Source

Reuters-21578 Text Categorization Collection Distribution 1.0 (XML format).

References

Lewis, David (1997). Reuters-21578 Text Categorization Collection Distribution. UCI Machine Learning Repository. doi:10.24432/C52G6M.

Examples

data("acq")
acq

Content Transformers

Description

Create content transformers, i.e., functions which modify the content of an R object.

Usage

content_transformer(FUN)

Arguments

Value

A function with two arguments:

x

an R object with implemented content getter (content) and setter (content<-) functions.

...

arguments passed over to FUN.

See Also

tm_map for an interface to apply transformations to corpora.

Examples

data("crude")
crude[[1]]
(f <- content_transformer(function(x, pattern) gsub(pattern, "", x)))
tm_map(crude, f, "[[:digit:]]+")[[1]]

20 Exemplary News Articles from the Reuters-21578 Data Set of Topic crude

Description

This data set holds 20 news articles with additional meta information from the Reuters-21578 data set. All documents belong to the topic crude dealing with crude oil.

Usage

data("crude")

Format

A VCorpus of 20 text documents.

Source

Reuters-21578 Text Categorization Collection Distribution 1.0 (XML format).

References

Lewis, David (1997). Reuters-21578 Text Categorization Collection Distribution. UCI Machine Learning Repository. doi:10.24432/C52G6M.

Examples

data("crude")
crude

Find Associations in a Term-Document Matrix

Description

Find associations in a document-term or term-document matrix.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'DocumentTermMatrix'
findAssocs(x, terms, corlimit)
## S3 method for class 'TermDocumentMatrix'
findAssocs(x, terms, corlimit)

Arguments

Value

A named list. Each list component is named after a term in terms and contains a named numeric vector. Each vector holds matching terms from x and their rounded correlations satisfying the inclusive lower correlation limit of corlimit.

Examples

data("crude")
tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(crude)
findAssocs(tdm, c("oil", "opec", "xyz"), c(0.7, 0.75, 0.1))

Find Frequent Terms

Description

Find frequent terms in a document-term or term-document matrix.

Usage

findFreqTerms(x, lowfreq = 0, highfreq = Inf)

Arguments

Details

This method works for all numeric weightings but is probably most meaningful for the standard term frequency (tf) weighting of x.

Value

A character vector of terms in x which occur more or equal often than lowfreq times and less or equal often than highfreq times.

Examples

data("crude")
tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(crude)
findFreqTerms(tdm, 2, 3)

Find Most Frequent Terms

Description

Find most frequent terms in a document-term or term-document matrix, or a vector of term frequencies.

Usage

findMostFreqTerms(x, n = 6L, ...)
## S3 method for class 'DocumentTermMatrix'
findMostFreqTerms(x, n = 6L, INDEX = NULL, ...)
## S3 method for class 'TermDocumentMatrix'
findMostFreqTerms(x, n = 6L, INDEX = NULL, ...)

Arguments

Details

Only terms with positive frequencies are included in the results.

Value

For the document-term or term-document matrix methods, a list with the named frequencies of the up to n most frequent terms occurring in each document (group). Otherwise, a single such vector of most frequent terms.

Examples

data("crude")

## Term frequencies:
tf <- termFreq(crude[[14L]])
findMostFreqTerms(tf)

## Document-term matrices:
dtm <- DocumentTermMatrix(crude)
## Most frequent terms for each document:
findMostFreqTerms(dtm)
## Most frequent terms for the first 10 the second 10 documents,
## respectively:
findMostFreqTerms(dtm, INDEX = rep(1 : 2, each = 10L))

Read Document-Term Matrices

Description

Read document-term matrices stored in special file formats.

Usage

read_dtm_Blei_et_al(file, vocab = NULL)
read_dtm_MC(file, scalingtype = NULL)

Arguments

Details

read_dtm_Blei_et_al reads the (List of Lists type sparse matrix) format employed by the Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Correlated Topic Model C codes by Blei et al (http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~blei/).

MC is a toolkit for creating vector models from text documents (see https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dml/software/mc/). It employs a variant of Compressed Column Storage (CCS) sparse matrix format, writing data into several files with suitable names: e.g., a file with ‘_dim’ appended to the base file name stores the matrix dimensions. The non-zero entries are stored in a file the name of which indicates the scaling type used: e.g., ‘_tfx_nz’ indicates scaling by term frequency (‘⁠t⁠’), inverse document frequency (‘⁠f⁠’) and no normalization (‘⁠x⁠’). See ‘README’ in the MC sources for more information.

read_dtm_MC reads such sparse matrix information with argument file giving the path with the base file name.

Value

A document-term matrix.

See Also

read_stm_MC in package slam.

Tokenizers

Description

Predefined tokenizers.

Usage

getTokenizers()

Value

A character vector with tokenizers provided by package tm.

See Also

Boost_tokenizer, MC_tokenizer and scan_tokenizer.

Examples

getTokenizers()

Transformations

Description

Predefined transformations (mappings) which can be used with tm_map.

Usage

getTransformations()

Value

A character vector with transformations provided by package tm.

See Also

removeNumbers, removePunctuation, removeWords, stemDocument, and stripWhitespace.

content_transformer to create custom transformations.

Examples

getTransformations()

Parallelized ‘lapply’

Description

Parallelize applying a function over a list or vector according to the registered parallelization engine.

Usage

tm_parLapply(X, FUN, ...)
tm_parLapply_engine(new)

Arguments

Details

Parallelization can be employed to speed up some of the embarrassingly parallel computations performed in package tm, specifically tm_index(), tm_map() on a non-lazy-mapped VCorpus, and TermDocumentMatrix() on a VCorpus or PCorpus.

Functions tm_parLapply() and tm_parLapply_engine() can be used to customize parallelization according to the available resources.

tm_parLapply_engine() is used for getting (with no arguments) or setting (with argument new) the parallelization engine employed (see below for examples).

If an engine is set to an object inheriting from class cluster, tm_parLapply() calls parLapply() with this cluster and the given arguments. If set to a function, tm_parLapply() calls the function with the given arguments. Otherwise, it simply calls lapply().

Hence, parallelization via parLapply() and a default cluster registered via setDefaultCluster() can be achieved via

  tm_parLapply_engine(function(X, FUN, ...)
      parallel::parLapply(NULL, X, FUN, ...))

or re-registering the cluster, say cl, using

  tm_parLapply_engine(cl)

(note that since R version 3.5.0, one can use getDefaultCluster() to get the registered default cluster). Using

  tm_parLapply_engine(function(X, FUN, ...)
      parallel::parLapplyLB(NULL, X, FUN, ...))

or

  tm_parLapply_engine(function(X, FUN, ...)
      parallel::parLapplyLB(cl, X, FUN, ...))

gives load-balancing parallelization with the registered default or given cluster, respectively. To achieve parallelization via forking (on Unix-alike platforms), one can use the above with clusters created by makeForkCluster(), or use

  tm_parLapply_engine(parallel::mclapply)

or

  tm_parLapply_engine(function(X, FUN, ...)
      parallel::mclapply(X, FUN, ..., mc.cores = n))

to use mclapply() with the default or given number n of cores.

Value

A list the length of X, with the result of applying FUN together with the ... arguments to each element of X.

See Also

makeCluster(), parLapply(), parLapplyLB(), and mclapply().

Inspect Objects

Description

Inspect, i.e., display detailed information on a corpus, a term-document matrix, or a text document.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PCorpus'
inspect(x)
## S3 method for class 'VCorpus'
inspect(x)
## S3 method for class 'TermDocumentMatrix'
inspect(x)
## S3 method for class 'TextDocument'
inspect(x)

Arguments

Examples

data("crude")
inspect(crude[1:3])
inspect(crude[[1]])
tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(crude)[1:10, 1:10]
inspect(tdm)

Metadata Management

Description

Accessing and modifying metadata of text documents and corpora.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PCorpus'
meta(x, tag = NULL, type = c("indexed", "corpus", "local"), ...)
## S3 replacement method for class 'PCorpus'
meta(x, tag, type = c("indexed", "corpus", "local"), ...) <- value
## S3 method for class 'SimpleCorpus'
meta(x, tag = NULL, type = c("indexed", "corpus"), ...)
## S3 replacement method for class 'SimpleCorpus'
meta(x, tag, type = c("indexed", "corpus"), ...) <- value
## S3 method for class 'VCorpus'
meta(x, tag = NULL, type = c("indexed", "corpus", "local"), ...)
## S3 replacement method for class 'VCorpus'
meta(x, tag, type = c("indexed", "corpus", "local"), ...) <- value
## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
meta(x, tag = NULL, ...)
## S3 replacement method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
meta(x, tag = NULL, ...) <- value
## S3 method for class 'XMLTextDocument'
meta(x, tag = NULL, ...)
## S3 replacement method for class 'XMLTextDocument'
meta(x, tag = NULL, ...) <- value
DublinCore(x, tag = NULL)
DublinCore(x, tag) <- value

Arguments

Details

A corpus has two types of metadata. Corpus metadata ("corpus") contains corpus specific metadata in form of tag-value pairs. Document level metadata ("indexed") contains document specific metadata but is stored in the corpus as a data frame. Document level metadata is typically used for semantic reasons (e.g., classifications of documents form an own entity due to some high-level information like the range of possible values) or for performance reasons (single access instead of extracting metadata of each document). The latter can be seen as a from of indexing, hence the name "indexed". Document metadata ("local") are tag-value pairs directly stored locally at the individual documents.

DublinCore is a convenience wrapper to access and modify the metadata of a text document using the Simple Dublin Core schema (supporting the 15 metadata elements from the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set https://dublincore.org/documents/dces/).

References

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. https://dublincore.org/

See Also

meta for metadata in package NLP.

Examples

data("crude")
meta(crude[[1]])
DublinCore(crude[[1]])
meta(crude[[1]], tag = "topics")
meta(crude[[1]], tag = "comment") <- "A short comment."
meta(crude[[1]], tag = "topics") <- NULL
DublinCore(crude[[1]], tag = "creator") <- "Ano Nymous"
DublinCore(crude[[1]], tag = "format") <- "XML"
DublinCore(crude[[1]])
meta(crude[[1]])
meta(crude)
meta(crude, type = "corpus")
meta(crude, "labels") <- 21:40
meta(crude)

Visualize a Term-Document Matrix

Description

Visualize correlations between terms of a term-document matrix.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'TermDocumentMatrix'
plot(x,
     terms = sample(Terms(x), 20),
     corThreshold = 0.7,
     weighting = FALSE,
     attrs = list(graph = list(rankdir = "BT"),
                  node = list(shape = "rectangle",
                              fixedsize = FALSE)),
     ...)

Arguments

Details

Visualization requires that package Rgraphviz is available.

Examples

## Not run: data(crude)
tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(crude,
                          control = list(removePunctuation = TRUE,
                                         removeNumbers = TRUE,
                                         stopwords = TRUE))
plot(tdm, corThreshold = 0.2, weighting = TRUE)
## End(Not run)

Read In a MS Word Document

Description

Return a function which reads in a Microsoft Word document extracting its text.

Usage

readDOC(engine = c("antiword", "executable"), AntiwordOptions = "")

Arguments

Details

Formally this function is a function generator, i.e., it returns a function (which reads in a text document) with a well-defined signature, but can access passed over arguments (e.g., options to antiword) via lexical scoping.

Available DOC extraction engines are as follows.

"antiword"

(default) Antiword utility as provided by the function antiword in package antiword.

"executable"

command line antiword executable which must be installed and accessible on your system. This can convert documents from Microsoft Word version 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text. The character vector AntiwordOptions is passed over to the executable.

Value

A function with the following formals:

elem

a list with the named component uri which must hold a valid file name.

language

a string giving the language.

id

Not used.

The function returns a PlainTextDocument representing the text and metadata extracted from elem$uri.

See Also

Reader for basic information on the reader infrastructure employed by package tm.

Read In a Text Document from a Data Frame

Description

Read in a text document from a row in a data frame.

Usage

readDataframe(elem, language, id)

Arguments

Value

A PlainTextDocument representing elem$content.

See Also

Reader for basic information on the reader infrastructure employed by package tm.

Examples

docs <- data.frame(doc_id = c("doc_1", "doc_2"),
                   text = c("This is a text.", "This another one."),
                   stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
ds <- DataframeSource(docs)
elem <- getElem(stepNext(ds))
result <- readDataframe(elem, "en", NULL)
inspect(result)
meta(result)

Read In a PDF Document

Description

Return a function which reads in a portable document format (PDF) document extracting both its text and its metadata.

Usage

readPDF(engine = c("pdftools", "xpdf", "Rpoppler",
                   "ghostscript", "Rcampdf", "custom"),
        control = list(info = NULL, text = NULL))

Arguments

Details

Formally this function is a function generator, i.e., it returns a function (which reads in a text document) with a well-defined signature, but can access passed over arguments (e.g., the preferred PDF extraction engine and control options) via lexical scoping.

Available PDF extraction engines are as follows.

"pdftools"

(default) Poppler PDF rendering library as provided by the functions pdf_info and pdf_text in package pdftools.

"xpdf"

command line pdfinfo and pdftotext executables which must be installed and accessible on your system. Suitable utilities are provided by the Xpdf (http://www.xpdfreader.com/) PDF viewer or by the Poppler (https://poppler.freedesktop.org/) PDF rendering library.

"Rpoppler"

Poppler PDF rendering library as provided by the functions PDF_info and PDF_text in package Rpoppler.

"ghostscript"

Ghostscript using ‘pdf_info.ps’ and ‘ps2ascii.ps’.

"Rcampdf"

Perl CAM::PDF PDF manipulation library as provided by the functions pdf_info and pdf_text in package Rcampdf, available from the repository at http://datacube.wu.ac.at.

"custom"

custom user-provided extraction engine.

Control parameters for engine "xpdf" are as follows.

info

a character vector specifying options passed over to the pdfinfo executable.

text

a character vector specifying options passed over to the pdftotext executable.

Control parameters for engine "custom" are as follows.

info

a function extracting metadata from a PDF. The function must accept a file path as first argument and must return a named list with the components Author (as character string), CreationDate (of class POSIXlt), Subject (as character string), Title (as character string), and Creator (as character string).

text

a function extracting content from a PDF. The function must accept a file path as first argument and must return a character vector.

Value

A function with the following formals:

elem

a named list with the component uri which must hold a valid file name.

language

a string giving the language.

id

Not used.

The function returns a PlainTextDocument representing the text and metadata extracted from elem$uri.

See Also

Reader for basic information on the reader infrastructure employed by package tm.

Examples

uri <- paste0("file://",
              system.file(file.path("doc", "tm.pdf"), package = "tm"))
engine <- if(nzchar(system.file(package = "pdftools"))) {
    "pdftools" 
} else {
    "ghostscript"
}
reader <- readPDF(engine)
pdf <- reader(elem = list(uri = uri), language = "en", id = "id1")
cat(content(pdf)[1])
VCorpus(URISource(uri, mode = ""),
        readerControl = list(reader = readPDF(engine = "ghostscript")))

Read In a Text Document

Description

Read in a text document without knowledge about its internal structure and possible available metadata.

Usage

readPlain(elem, language, id)

Arguments

Value

A PlainTextDocument representing elem$content. The argument id is used as fallback if elem$uri is null.

See Also

Reader for basic information on the reader infrastructure employed by package tm.

Examples

docs <- c("This is a text.", "This another one.")
vs <- VectorSource(docs)
elem <- getElem(stepNext(vs))
(result <- readPlain(elem, "en", "id1"))
meta(result)

Read In a Reuters Corpus Volume 1 Document

Description

Read in a Reuters Corpus Volume 1 XML document.

Usage

readRCV1(elem, language, id)
readRCV1asPlain(elem, language, id)

Arguments

Value

An XMLTextDocument for readRCV1, or a PlainTextDocument for readRCV1asPlain, representing the text and metadata extracted from elem$content.

References

Lewis, D. D.; Yang, Y.; Rose, T.; and Li, F (2004). RCV1: A New Benchmark Collection for Text Categorization Research. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 5, 361–397. https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume5/lewis04a/lewis04a.pdf

See Also

Reader for basic information on the reader infrastructure employed by package tm.

Examples

f <- system.file("texts", "rcv1_2330.xml", package = "tm")
f_bin <- readBin(f, raw(), file.size(f))
rcv1 <- readRCV1(elem = list(content = f_bin), language = "en", id = "id1")
content(rcv1)
meta(rcv1)

Read In a Reuters-21578 XML Document

Description

Read in a Reuters-21578 XML document.

Usage

readReut21578XML(elem, language, id)
readReut21578XMLasPlain(elem, language, id)

Arguments

Value

An XMLTextDocument for readReut21578XML, or a PlainTextDocument for readReut21578XMLasPlain, representing the text and metadata extracted from elem$content.

References

Lewis, David (1997). Reuters-21578 Text Categorization Collection Distribution. UCI Machine Learning Repository. doi:10.24432/C52G6M.

See Also

Reader for basic information on the reader infrastructure employed by package tm.

Read In a POS-Tagged Word Text Document

Description

Return a function which reads in a text document containing POS-tagged words.

Usage

readTagged(...)

Arguments

Details

Formally this function is a function generator, i.e., it returns a function (which reads in a text document) with a well-defined signature, but can access passed over arguments (...) via lexical scoping.

Value

A function with the following formals:

elem

a named list with the component content which must hold the document to be read in or the component uri holding a connection object or a character string.

language

a string giving the language.

id

a character giving a unique identifier for the created text document.

The function returns a TaggedTextDocument representing the text and metadata extracted from elem$content or elem$uri. The argument id is used as fallback if elem$uri is null.

See Also

Reader for basic information on the reader infrastructure employed by package tm.

Examples

# See http://www.nltk.org/book/ch05.html or file ca01 in the Brown corpus
x <- paste("The/at grand/jj jury/nn commented/vbd on/in a/at number/nn of/in",
           "other/ap topics/nns ,/, among/in them/ppo the/at Atlanta/np and/cc",
           "Fulton/np-tl County/nn-tl purchasing/vbg departments/nns which/wdt",
           "it/pps said/vbd ``/`` are/ber well/ql operated/vbn and/cc follow/vb",
           "generally/rb accepted/vbn practices/nns which/wdt inure/vb to/in the/at",
           "best/jjt interest/nn of/in both/abx governments/nns ''/'' ./.")
vs <- VectorSource(x)
elem <- getElem(stepNext(vs))
(doc <- readTagged()(elem, language = "en", id = "id1"))
tagged_words(doc)

Read In an XML Document

Description

Return a function which reads in an XML document. The structure of the XML document is described with a specification.

Usage

readXML(spec, doc)

Arguments

Details

Formally this function is a function generator, i.e., it returns a function (which reads in a text document) with a well-defined signature, but can access passed over arguments (e.g., the specification) via lexical scoping.

Value

A function with the following formals:

elem

a named list with the component content which must hold the document to be read in.

language

a string giving the language.

id

a character giving a unique identifier for the created text document.

The function returns doc augmented by the parsed information as described by spec out of the XML file in elem$content. The arguments language and id are used as fallback: language if no corresponding metadata entry is found in elem$content, and id if no corresponding metadata entry is found in elem$content and if elem$uri is null.

See Also

Reader for basic information on the reader infrastructure employed by package tm.

Vignette 'Extensions: How to Handle Custom File Formats', and XMLSource.

Remove Numbers from a Text Document

Description

Remove numbers from a text document.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'character'
removeNumbers(x, ucp = FALSE, ...)
## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
removeNumbers(x, ...)

Arguments

Value

The text document without numbers.

See Also

getTransformations to list available transformation (mapping) functions.

https://unicode.org/reports/tr44/#General_Category_Values.

Examples

data("crude")
crude[[1]]
removeNumbers(crude[[1]])

Remove Punctuation Marks from a Text Document

Description

Remove punctuation marks from a text document.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'character'
removePunctuation(x,
                  preserve_intra_word_contractions = FALSE,
                  preserve_intra_word_dashes = FALSE,
                  ucp = FALSE, ...)
## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
removePunctuation(x, ...)

Arguments

Value

The character or text document x without punctuation marks (besides intra-word contractions (‘⁠'⁠’) and intra-word dashes (‘⁠-⁠’) if preserve_intra_word_contractions and preserve_intra_word_dashes are set, respectively).

See Also

getTransformations to list available transformation (mapping) functions.

regex shows the class [:punct:] of punctuation characters.

https://unicode.org/reports/tr44/#General_Category_Values.

Examples

data("crude")
inspect(crude[[14]])
inspect(removePunctuation(crude[[14]]))
inspect(removePunctuation(crude[[14]],
                          preserve_intra_word_contractions = TRUE,
                          preserve_intra_word_dashes = TRUE))

Remove Sparse Terms from a Term-Document Matrix

Description

Remove sparse terms from a document-term or term-document matrix.

Usage

removeSparseTerms(x, sparse)

Arguments

Value

A term-document matrix where those terms from x are removed which have at least a sparse percentage of empty (i.e., terms occurring 0 times in a document) elements. I.e., the resulting matrix contains only terms with a sparse factor of less than sparse.

Examples

data("crude")
tdm <- TermDocumentMatrix(crude)
removeSparseTerms(tdm, 0.2)

Remove Words from a Text Document

Description

Remove words from a text document.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'character'
removeWords(x, words)
## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
removeWords(x, ...)

Arguments

Value

The character or text document without the specified words.

See Also

getTransformations to list available transformation (mapping) functions.

remove_stopwords provided by package tau.

Examples

data("crude")
crude[[1]]
removeWords(crude[[1]], stopwords("english"))

Complete Stems

Description

Heuristically complete stemmed words.

Usage

stemCompletion(x,
               dictionary,
               type = c("prevalent", "first", "longest",
                        "none", "random", "shortest"))

Arguments

Value

A character vector with completed words.

References

Ingo Feinerer (2010). Analysis and Algorithms for Stemming Inversion. Information Retrieval Technology — 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1–3, 2010. Proceedings, volume 6458 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 290–299. Springer-Verlag, December 2010.

Examples

data("crude")
stemCompletion(c("compan", "entit", "suppl"), crude)

Stem Words

Description

Stem words in a text document using Porter's stemming algorithm.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'character'
stemDocument(x, language = "english")
## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
stemDocument(x, language = meta(x, "language"))

Arguments

Details

The argument language is passed over to wordStem as the name of the Snowball stemmer.

Examples

data("crude")
inspect(crude[[1]])
if(requireNamespace("SnowballC")) {
    inspect(stemDocument(crude[[1]]))
}

Stopwords

Description

Return various kinds of stopwords with support for different languages.

Usage

stopwords(kind = "en")

Arguments

Details

Available stopword lists are:

catalan

Catalan stopwords (obtained from http://latel.upf.edu/morgana/altres/pub/ca_stop.htm),

romanian

Romanian stopwords (extracted from http://snowball.tartarus.org/otherapps/romanian/romanian1.tgz),

SMART

English stopwords from the SMART information retrieval system (as documented in Appendix 11 of https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume5/lewis04a/) (which coincides with the stopword list used by the MC toolkit (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dml/software/mc/)),

and a set of stopword lists from the Snowball stemmer project in different languages (obtained from ‘⁠http://svn.tartarus.org/snowball/trunk/website/algorithms/*/stop.txt⁠’). Supported languages are danish, dutch, english, finnish, french, german, hungarian, italian, norwegian, portuguese, russian, spanish, and swedish. Language names are case sensitive. Alternatively, their IETF language tags may be used.

Value

A character vector containing the requested stopwords. An error is raised if no stopwords are available for the requested kind.

Examples

stopwords("en")
stopwords("SMART")
stopwords("german")

Strip Whitespace from a Text Document

Description

Strip extra whitespace from a text document. Multiple whitespace characters are collapsed to a single blank.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
stripWhitespace(x, ...)

Arguments

Value

The text document with multiple whitespace characters collapsed to a single blank.

See Also

getTransformations to list available transformation (mapping) functions.

Examples

data("crude")
crude[[1]]
stripWhitespace(crude[[1]])

Term Frequency Vector

Description

Generate a term frequency vector from a text document.

Usage

termFreq(doc, control = list())

Arguments

Value

A table of class c("term_frequency", "integer") with term frequencies as values and tokens as names.

See Also

getTokenizers

Examples

data("crude")
termFreq(crude[[14]])
if(requireNamespace("SnowballC")) {
    strsplit_space_tokenizer <- function(x)
        unlist(strsplit(as.character(x), "[[:space:]]+"))
    ctrl <- list(tokenize = strsplit_space_tokenizer,
                 removePunctuation =
                     list(preserve_intra_word_dashes = TRUE),
                 stopwords = c("reuter", "that"),
                 stemming = TRUE,
                 wordLengths = c(4, Inf))
    termFreq(crude[[14]], control = ctrl)
}

Combine Corpora, Documents, Term-Document Matrices, and Term Frequency Vectors

Description

Combine several corpora into a single one, combine multiple documents into a corpus, combine multiple term-document matrices into a single one, or combine multiple term frequency vectors into a single term-document matrix.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'VCorpus'
c(..., recursive = FALSE)
## S3 method for class 'TextDocument'
c(..., recursive = FALSE)
## S3 method for class 'TermDocumentMatrix'
c(..., recursive = FALSE)
## S3 method for class 'term_frequency'
c(..., recursive = FALSE)

Arguments

See Also

VCorpus, TextDocument, TermDocumentMatrix, and termFreq.

Examples

data("acq")
data("crude")
meta(acq, "comment", type = "corpus") <- "Acquisitions"
meta(crude, "comment", type = "corpus") <- "Crude oil"
meta(acq, "acqLabels") <- 1:50
meta(acq, "jointLabels") <- 1:50
meta(crude, "crudeLabels") <- letters[1:20]
meta(crude, "jointLabels") <- 1:20
c(acq, crude)
meta(c(acq, crude), type = "corpus")
meta(c(acq, crude))
c(acq[[30]], crude[[10]])
c(TermDocumentMatrix(acq), TermDocumentMatrix(crude))

Filter and Index Functions on Corpora

Description

Interface to apply filter and index functions to corpora.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PCorpus'
tm_filter(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'SimpleCorpus'
tm_filter(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'VCorpus'
tm_filter(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'PCorpus'
tm_index(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'SimpleCorpus'
tm_index(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'VCorpus'
tm_index(x, FUN, ...)

Arguments

Value

tm_filter returns a corpus containing documents where FUN matches, whereas tm_index only returns the corresponding indices.

Examples

data("crude")
# Full-text search
tm_filter(crude, FUN = function(x) any(grep("co[m]?pany", content(x))))

Transformations on Corpora

Description

Interface to apply transformation functions (also denoted as mappings) to corpora.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PCorpus'
tm_map(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'SimpleCorpus'
tm_map(x, FUN, ...)
## S3 method for class 'VCorpus'
tm_map(x, FUN, ..., lazy = FALSE)

Arguments

Value

A corpus with FUN applied to each document in x. In case of lazy mappings only internal flags are set. Access of individual documents triggers the execution of the corresponding transformation function.

Note

Lazy transformations change R's standard evaluation semantics.

See Also

getTransformations for available transformations.

Examples

data("crude")
## Document access triggers the stemming function
## (i.e., all other documents are not stemmed yet)
if(requireNamespace("SnowballC")) {
    tm_map(crude, stemDocument, lazy = TRUE)[[1]]
}
## Use wrapper to apply character processing function
tm_map(crude, content_transformer(tolower))
## Generate a custom transformation function which takes the heading as new content
headings <- function(x)
    PlainTextDocument(meta(x, "heading"),
                      id = meta(x, "id"),
                      language = meta(x, "language"))
inspect(tm_map(crude, headings))

Combine Transformations

Description

Fold multiple transformations (mappings) into a single one.

Usage

tm_reduce(x, tmFuns, ...)

Arguments

Value

A single tm transformation function obtained by folding tmFuns from right to left (via Reduce(..., right = TRUE)).

See Also

Reduce for R's internal folding/accumulation mechanism, and getTransformations to list available transformation (mapping) functions.

Examples

data(crude)
crude[[1]]
skipWords <- function(x) removeWords(x, c("it", "the"))
funs <- list(stripWhitespace,
             skipWords,
             removePunctuation,
             content_transformer(tolower))
tm_map(crude, FUN = tm_reduce, tmFuns = funs)[[1]]

Compute Score for Matching Terms

Description

Compute a score based on the number of matching terms.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'DocumentTermMatrix'
tm_term_score(x, terms, FUN = row_sums)
## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument'
tm_term_score(x, terms, FUN = function(x) sum(x, na.rm = TRUE))
## S3 method for class 'term_frequency'
tm_term_score(x, terms, FUN = function(x) sum(x, na.rm = TRUE))
## S3 method for class 'TermDocumentMatrix'
tm_term_score(x, terms, FUN = col_sums)

Arguments

Value

A score as computed by FUN from the number of matching terms in x.

Examples

data("acq")
tm_term_score(acq[[1]], c("company", "change"))
## Not run: ## Test for positive and negative sentiments
## install.packages("tm.lexicon.GeneralInquirer", repos="http://datacube.wu.ac.at", type="source")
require("tm.lexicon.GeneralInquirer")
sapply(acq[1:10], tm_term_score, terms_in_General_Inquirer_categories("Positiv"))
sapply(acq[1:10], tm_term_score, terms_in_General_Inquirer_categories("Negativ"))
tm_term_score(TermDocumentMatrix(acq[1:10],
                                control = list(removePunctuation = TRUE)),
             terms_in_General_Inquirer_categories("Positiv"))
## End(Not run)

Tokenizers

Description

Tokenize a document or character vector.

Usage

Boost_tokenizer(x)
MC_tokenizer(x)
scan_tokenizer(x)

Arguments

Details

The quality and correctness of a tokenization algorithm highly depends on the context and application scenario. Relevant factors are the language of the underlying text and the notions of whitespace (which can vary with the used encoding and the language) and punctuation marks. Consequently, for superior results you probably need a custom tokenization function.

Boost_tokenizer

Uses the Boost (https://www.boost.org) Tokenizer (via Rcpp).

MC_tokenizer

Implements the functionality of the tokenizer in the MC toolkit (https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~dml/software/mc/).

scan_tokenizer

Simulates scan(..., what = "character").

Value

A character vector consisting of tokens obtained by tokenization of x.

See Also

getTokenizers to list tokenizers provided by package tm.

Regexp_Tokenizer for tokenizers using regular expressions provided by package NLP.

tokenize for a simple regular expression based tokenizer provided by package tau.

tokenizers for a collection of tokenizers provided by package tokenizers.

Examples

data("crude")
Boost_tokenizer(crude[[1]])
MC_tokenizer(crude[[1]])
scan_tokenizer(crude[[1]])
strsplit_space_tokenizer <- function(x)
    unlist(strsplit(as.character(x), "[[:space:]]+"))
strsplit_space_tokenizer(crude[[1]])

Weight Binary

Description

Binary weight a term-document matrix.

Usage

weightBin(m)

Arguments

Details

Formally this function is of class WeightingFunction with the additional attributes name and acronym.

Value

The weighted matrix.

SMART Weightings

Description

Weight a term-document matrix according to a combination of weights specified in SMART notation.

Usage

weightSMART(m, spec = "nnn", control = list())

Arguments

Details

Formally this function is of class WeightingFunction with the additional attributes name and acronym.

The first letter of spec specifies a weighting schema for term frequencies of m:

"n"

(natural) \mathit{tf}_{i,j} counts the number of occurrences n_{i,j} of a term t_i in a document d_j. The input term-document matrix m is assumed to be in this standard term frequency format already.

"l"

(logarithm) is defined as 1 + \log_2(\mathit{tf}_{i,j}).

"a"

(augmented) is defined as 0.5 + \frac{0.5 * \mathit{tf}_{i,j}}{\max_i(\mathit{tf}_{i,j})}.

"b"

(boolean) is defined as 1 if \mathit{tf}_{i,j} > 0 and 0 otherwise.

"L"

(log average) is defined as \frac{1 + \log_2(\mathit{tf}_{i,j})}{1+\log_2(\mathrm{ave}_{i\in j}(\mathit{tf}_{i,j}))}.

The second letter of spec specifies a weighting schema of document frequencies for m:

"n"

(no) is defined as 1.

"t"

(idf) is defined as \log_2 \frac{N}{\mathit{df}_t} where \mathit{df}_t denotes how often term t occurs in all documents.

"p"

(prob idf) is defined as \max(0, \log_2(\frac{N - \mathit{df}_t}{\mathit{df}_t})).

The third letter of spec specifies a schema for normalization of m:

"n"

(none) is defined as 1.

"c"

(cosine) is defined as \sqrt{\mathrm{col\_sums}(m ^ 2)}.

"u"

(pivoted unique) is defined as \mathit{slope} * \sqrt{\mathrm{col\_sums}(m ^ 2)} + (1 - \mathit{slope}) * \mathit{pivot} where both slope and pivot must be set via named tags in the control list.

"b"

(byte size) is defined as \frac{1}{\mathit{CharLength}^\alpha}. The parameter \alpha must be set via the named tag alpha in the control list.

The final result is defined by multiplication of the chosen term frequency component with the chosen document frequency component with the chosen normalization component.

Value

The weighted matrix.

References

Christopher D. Manning and Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze (2008). Introduction to Information Retrieval. Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0521865719.

Examples

data("crude")
TermDocumentMatrix(crude,
                   control = list(removePunctuation = TRUE,
                                  stopwords = TRUE,
                                  weighting = function(x)
                                  weightSMART(x, spec = "ntc")))

Weight by Term Frequency

Description

Weight a term-document matrix by term frequency.

Usage

weightTf(m)

Arguments

Details

Formally this function is of class WeightingFunction with the additional attributes name and acronym.

This function acts as the identity function since the input matrix is already in term frequency format.

Value

The weighted matrix.

Weight by Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency

Description

Weight a term-document matrix by term frequency - inverse document frequency.

Usage

weightTfIdf(m, normalize = TRUE)

Arguments

Details

Formally this function is of class WeightingFunction with the additional attributes name and acronym.

Term frequency \mathit{tf}_{i,j} counts the number of occurrences n_{i,j} of a term t_i in a document d_j. In the case of normalization, the term frequency \mathit{tf}_{i,j} is divided by \sum_k n_{k,j}.

Inverse document frequency for a term t_i is defined as

\mathit{idf}_i = \log_2 \frac{|D|}{|\{d \mid t_i \in d\}|}

where |D| denotes the total number of documents and where |\{d \mid t_i \in d\}| is the number of documents where the term t_i appears.

Term frequency - inverse document frequency is now defined as \mathit{tf}_{i,j} \cdot \mathit{idf}_i.

Value

The weighted matrix.

References

Gerard Salton and Christopher Buckley (1988). Term-weighting approaches in automatic text retrieval. Information Processing and Management, 24/5, 513–523.

Write a Corpus to Disk

Description

Write a plain text representation of a corpus to multiple files on disk corresponding to the individual documents in the corpus.

Usage

writeCorpus(x, path = ".", filenames = NULL)

Arguments

Details

The plain text representation of the corpus is obtained by calling as.character on each document.

Examples

data("crude")
## Not run: writeCorpus(crude, path = ".",
            filenames = paste(seq_along(crude), ".txt", sep = ""))
## End(Not run)