TheOpenAIR (version 0.1.0)

extract_entities: Extract Entities from a Text

Description

This function takes a character string or a path to a text file and returns a tibble describing the entities found in the text. The type of entities to be searched for and extracted can be defined by the user.

Usage

extract_entities(
  text,
  entity_types = c("locations", "persons", "organizations"),
  batch_size = NULL
)

Value

A tibble

Arguments

text

A character string containing the text to be processed, or a path to a text file

entity_types

A character vector containing names of entity types to be extracted. Defaults to c("locations", "persons", "organizations").

batch_size

An integer indicating the size of each batch, if the text input is supposed to be processed in batches. Set this to NULL to process all at once.

Author

Ulrich Matter [e-mail]

Examples

 if (FALSE) {
extract_entities("Hello, how are you?")
extract_entities("path/to/text/file.txt",  batch_size = 100)
}