pmc_text: Split section paragraphs into sentences

In tidypmc: Parse Full Text XML Documents from PubMed Central

Split section paragraphs into sentences

Description

Split section paragraph tags into a table with subsection titles and sentences using tokenize_sentences

Usage

pmc_text(doc, sentence = TRUE)

Arguments

doc	xml_document from PubMed Central
sentence	split paragraphs into sentences, default TRUE

Value

a tibble with section, paragraph and sentence number and text

Note

Subsections may be nested to arbitrary depths and this function will return the entire path to the subsection title as a delimited string like "Results; Predicted functions; Pathogenicity". Tables, figures and formulas that are nested in section paragraphs are removed, superscripted references are replaced with brackets, and any other superscripts or subscripts are separared with ^ and _.

Author(s)

Chris Stubben

Examples

# doc <- pmc_xml("PMC2231364")
doc <- xml2::read_xml(system.file("extdata/PMC2231364.xml",
  package = "tidypmc"
))
txt <- pmc_text(doc)
txt
dplyr::count(txt, section, sort = TRUE)

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