frequentwords: Frequent words

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Frequent words

Description

Most frequent words of the corpus.

Usage

frequentwords(
  corpus,
  nb,
  mincount = 5,
  minphrasecount = NULL,
  ngram = 1,
  lang = "en",
  stopwords = lang,
  excludewords = NULL,
  removesinglechars = TRUE
)

Arguments

corpus	The corpus of documents (a vector of characters) or the vocabulary of the documents (result of function getvocab).
nb	The number of words to be returned.
mincount	Minimum word count to be considered as frequent.
minphrasecount	Minimum collocation of words count to be considered as frequent.
ngram	maximum size of n-grams.
lang	The language of the documents (NULL if no stemming).
stopwords	The language whose stop words are removed ("en", ...), or NULL to keep them. A list of words of your own goes to excludewords.
excludewords	An optional custom vector of additional words to exclude from the vocabulary (e.g. corpus-specific stop words), on top of (or instead of) the language stopwords given through stopwords.
removesinglechars	Whether single-character tokens are removed during cleanup.

Value

The most frequent words of the corpus.

See Also

getvocab

Examples

data (capitals)
frequentwords (capitals, 10, mincount = 2)
vocab = getvocab (capitals, mincount = 2)
frequentwords (vocab, 10)

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