stemCompletion: Complete Stems
Description
Heuristically complete stemmed words.
Usage
stemCompletion(x, dictionary, type = c("prevalent", "first", "longest", "none", "random", "shortest"))
Arguments
x
A character vector of stems to be completed.
dictionary
A Corpus or character vector to be searched
for possible completions. type
A character naming the heuristics to be used:
prevalent- Default. Takes the most frequent match as
completion.
first- Takes the first found completion.
longest- Takes the longest completion in terms of
characters.
none- Is the identity.
random- Takes some completion.
shortest- Takes the shortest completion in terms of
characters.
Value
A character vector with completed words.
References
Ingo Feinerer (2010).
Analysis and Algorithms for Stemming Inversion.
Information Retrieval Technology --- 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1--3, 2010. Proceedings, volume 6458 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 290--299. Springer-Verlag, December 2010.
Examples
data("crude")
stemCompletion(c("compan", "entit", "suppl"), crude)