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stemDocument: Stem Words

Description

Stem words in a text document using Porter's stemming algorithm.

Usage

# S3 method for character
stemDocument(x, language = "english")
# S3 method for PlainTextDocument
stemDocument(x, language = meta(x, "language"))

Arguments

x

A character vector or text document.

language

A string giving the language for stemming.

Details

Stemming requires that package SnowballC is installed. The argument language is passed over to wordStem as the name of the Snowball stemmer.

Examples

data("crude")
inspect(crude[[1]])
if(requireNamespace("SnowballC")) {
    inspect(stemDocument(crude[[1]]))
}