corpus (version 0.6.0)

abbreviations: Abbreviations

Description

Get a list of common abbreviations.

Usage

abbreviations(kind = "english")

Arguments

kind

the name of the abbreviation list, or NULL. Allowed values are "english", "french", "german", "italian", "portuguese", and "russian"; these values retrieve the language-specific sentence break suppression lists compiled by the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository, with a few additions to the "english" list.

Value

A character vector of abbreviations of the specified kind, or NULL if kind = NULL.

Details

abbreviations returns a character vector of abbreviations. The main use of this function is to get a list of sentence break suppressions, terms ending in full stops (periods, ambiguous sentence terminators) that when followed by an upper-case letter, do not signal the end of a sentence.

The built-in abbreviation lists returned by this function are reasonable defaults, but they may require further tailoring to suit your particular task.

See Also

text_split.

Examples

    head(abbreviations("english"))
    head(abbreviations("french"))
    abbreviations(NULL)

    # add words to the default list:
    my_abbrev <- c(abbreviations("english"), "Mon.", "Tues.", "Weds.")