get_anchors: Gets anchor terms from precompiled anchor lists

In text2map: R Tools for Text Matrices, Embeddings, and Networks

Gets anchor terms from precompiled anchor lists

Description

Produces a data.frame of juxtaposed word pairs used to extract a semantic direction in word embeddings. Can be used as input to get_direction().

Usage

get_anchors(relation)

Arguments

relation

String indicating a semantic relation, 26 relations are available in the dataset (see details) but should be used as a starting point.

Details

Sets of juxtaposed "anchor" pairs are adapted from published work and associated with a particular semantic relation. These should be used as a starting point, not as "ground truth."

Available relations include:

• activity

• affluence

• age

• attractiveness

• borders

• concreteness

• cultivation

• dominance

• education

• gender

• government

• purity

• safety

• sexuality

• skills

• status

• valence

• whiteness

Value

returns a tibble with two columns

Author(s)

Dustin Stoltz

Examples

gen <- get_anchors(relation = "gender")

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