stemDocument: Stem Words

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Stem Words

Description

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

Usage

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

Arguments

x	A character vector or text document.
language	A string giving the language for stemming.

Details

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]]))
}

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