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R Language Analysis Suite

An R-package for analyzing natural language with transformers-based large language models. The text package is part of the R Language Analysis Suite, including:

• talk - a package that transforms voice recordings into text, audio features, or embeddings.
• text - a package that provides tools for many language tasks such as converting digital text into word embeddings. talk and text offer access to Large Language Models from Hugging Face.
• topics a package with tools for visualizing language patterns into topics.
• the L-BAM Library a library that provides pre-trained models for different psychological assessments such as mental health issues, personality and related behaviours.

The R Language Analysis Suite is created through a collaboration between psychology and computer science to address research needs and ensure state-of-the-art techniques. The suite is continuously tested on Ubuntu, Mac OS and Windows using the latest stable R version.

The text-package has two main objectives: * First, to serve R-users as a point solution for transforming text to state-of-the-art word embeddings that are ready to be used for downstream tasks. The package provides a user-friendly link to language models based on transformers from Hugging Face. * Second, to serve as an end-to-end solution that provides state-of-the-art AI techniques tailored for social and behavioral scientists. Please reference our tutorial article when using the text package: The text-package: An R-package for Analyzing and Visualizing Human Language Using Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning.