[R] word stemming for corpus linguistics

[Paul Johnston]

Suggest look at http://www.inside-r.org/packages/cran/tm/docs/stemDocument



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From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Andy Wolfe
Sent: 26 July 2016 08:10
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Subject: [R] word stemming for corpus linguistics

Hi list

On a piece of work I'm doing in corpus linguistics, using a combo of texts by Gries "Quantitative Corpus Linguistics with R: A Practical Introduction" and Jockers "Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature", which are both really excellent by the way, I want to stem or lemmatize the words so that, for e.g., 'facilitating', 'facilitated', and 'facilitates' all become 'facilit'.

In text mining, using a combination of the packages 'tm' and 'SnowballC' 
this is feasible, but then I am finding that working with the DTM (document term matrix) becomes difficult for when I want to do concordance (or key word in context) analysis.

So, two questions:

(1) is there a package for R version 3.3.1 that can work with corpus linguistics? and/ or

(2) is there a way of doing concordance analysis using the tm package as part of the whole text mining process?

I appreciate any help. Thanks.

Andy


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