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stemDocument

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

`x`	A character vector or text document.
`language`	A string giving the language for stemming.

Details

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

Examples

data("crude")
inspect(crude[[1]])
inspect(stemDocument(crude[[1]]))

tm

Text Mining Package

v0.7-8

GPL-3

Authors

Ingo Feinerer [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7656-8338>), Kurt Hornik [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4198-9911>), Artifex Software, Inc. [ctb, cph] (pdf_info.ps taken from GPL Ghostscript)

Initial release

2020-11-17