Apply a stemmer to words. This is a wrapper to wordStem designed to allow this function to be called without loading the entire SnowballC package. wordStem uses Martin Porter's stemming algorithm and the C libstemmer library generated by Snowball.
tokens_wordstem(x, language = quanteda_options("language_stemmer")) char_wordstem(x, language = quanteda_options("language_stemmer")) dfm_wordstem(x, language = quanteda_options("language_stemmer"))
x | a character, tokens, or dfm object whose word stems are to be removed. If tokenized texts, the tokenization must be word-based. |
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language | the name of a recognized language, as returned by getStemLanguages, or a two- or three-letter ISO-639 code corresponding to one of these languages (see references for the list of codes) |
tokens_wordstem
returns a tokens object whose word
types have been stemmed.
char_wordstem
returns a character object whose word
types have been stemmed.
dfm_wordstem
returns a dfm object whose word
types (features) have been stemmed, and recombined to consolidate features made
equivalent because of stemming.
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/standards/language_codes.htm for the ISO-639 language codes
# example applied to tokens txt <- c(one = "eating eater eaters eats ate", two = "taxing taxes taxed my tax return") th <- tokens(txt) tokens_wordstem(th)#> Tokens consisting of 2 documents. #> one : #> [1] "eat" "eater" "eater" "eat" "ate" #> #> two : #> [1] "tax" "tax" "tax" "my" "tax" "return" #>#> [1] "win" "win" "win" "won" "winner"#> Document-feature matrix of: 2 documents, 11 features (50.00% sparse) and 0 docvars. #> features #> docs eating eater eaters eats ate taxing taxes taxed my tax #> one 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 #> two 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 #> [ reached max_nfeat ... 1 more feature ]dfm_wordstem(origdfm)#> Document-feature matrix of: 2 documents, 6 features (50.00% sparse) and 0 docvars. #> features #> docs eat eater ate tax my return #> one 2 2 1 0 0 0 #> two 0 0 0 4 1 1