NEWS.md
In dselivanov/text2vec: Modern Text Mining Framework for R

text2vec 0.6.5 (2023-10-16)

2019-12-17
- breaking change - removed construction of a vocabulary in parallel on windows
- use rsparse package for SVD and GloVe factorizations
- updated RWMD implementation (hopefully bug free)
2018-09-10
- breaking change - changed IDF formula - see #280 for details.
2018-05-28
- Added postag_lemma_tokenizer() (wrapper around udpipe::udpipe_annotate). Can be used as a drop-in replacement for more simple tokenizers in text2vec.
2018-05-25
- Made combine_vocabularies() part of public API - see #260 for details.
2018-05-10
- Added coherence() function for comprehensive coherence metrics. Thanks to Manuel Bickel ( @manuelbickel ) for conrtibution.
2018-05-02
- Fixed bug LSA model - document embeddings calculated as left singular vectors multiplied by singular values (not square root of values as before). Thanks to Sloane Simmons ( @singularperturbation )
- Now fit_transform and transform methods in LDA model produce same results. Thanks to @jiunsiew for reporting. Also now LDA has n_iter_inference parameter. It controls number of the samples from converged distribution for document-topic inference. This leads to more robust document-topic probabilities (reduced variance). Default value is 10.
2018-01-17
- more numerically robust PMI, LFMD - thanks to @andland. Also adds iteration number iter to collocation_stat. iter shows iteration number when collocation stats (and counters) were calculated.

2018-01-10
- removed rank* columns from collocation_stat - were never used internally. Users can easily calculate ranks themselves
2018-01-09
- Added Bi-Normal Separation transformation, thanks to Pavel Shashkin ( @pshashk )
- Added Dunning's log-likelihood ratio for collocations, thanks to Chris Lee ( @Chrisss93 )
- Early stopping for collocations learning
2017-12-18
- fixed several bugs #219 #217 #205
- decreased number of dependencies - no more magrittr, uuid, tokenizers
- removed distributed LDA which didn't work correctly
2017-10-18
- Now tokenization is based on tokenizers and THE stringi packages.
- models API follow mlapi package. No API changes on text2vec side - we just put abstract scikit-learn-like classes to a separate package in order to make them more reusable.

2017-06-12
- Add additional filters to prune_vocabulary - filter by document counts
- Clean up LSA, fixed transform method. Added option to use randomized SVD algorithm from irlba.
2017-05-17
- Imrove dist2 performamce for RWMD - incorporate ideas from gensim PR discussion.
2017-05-17
- API breaking change - vocabulary format change - now plain data.frame with meta-information in attributes (stopwords, ngram, number of docs, etc).
2017-03-25
- No more rely on RcppModules
- API breaking change - removed lda_c from formats in DTM construction
- added ifiles_parallel, itoken_parallel high-level functions for parallel computing
- API breaking change chunks_numer parameter renamed to n_chunks
2017-01-02
- API breaking change - removed create_corpus from public API, moved co-occurence related optons to create_tcm from vecorizers
- add ability to add custom weights for co-occurence statistics calculations
2016-12-30
- Noticeable speedup (1.5x) and even more noticeable improvement on memory usage (2x less!) for create_dtm, create_tcm . Now package relies on sparsepp library for underlying hash maps.
2016-10-30
- Collocations - detection of multi-word phrases using differend heuristics - PMI, gensim, LFMD.
2016-10-20
- Fixed bug in as.lda_c() function

Now under GPL (>= 2) Licence
"immutable" iterators - no need to reinitialize them
unified models interface
New models: LSA, LDA, GloVe with L1 regularization
Fast similarity and distances calculation: Cosine, Jaccard, Relaxed Word Mover's Distance, Euclidean
Better hadnling UTF-8 strings, thanks to @qinwf
iterators and models rely on R6 package

2016-01-13 fix for #46, thanks to @buhrmann for reporting
2016-01-16 format of vocabulary changed.
- do not keep doc_proportions. see #52.
- add stop_words argument to prune_vocabulary. signature also was changed.
2016-01-17 fix for #51. if iterator over tokens returns list with names, these names will be:
- stored as attr(corpus, 'ids')
- rownames in dtm
- names for dtm list in lda_c format
2016-02-02 high level function for corpus and vocabulary construction.
- construction of vocabulary from list of itoken.
- construction of dtm from list of itoken.
2016-02-10 rename transformers
- now all transformers starts with transform_* - more intuitive + simpler usage with autocompletion
2016-03-29 (accumulated since 2016-02-10)
- rename vocabulary to create_vocabulary.
- new functions create_dtm, create_tcm.
- All core functions are able to benefit from multicore machines (user have to register parallel backend themselves)
- Fix for progress bars. Now they are able to reach 100% and ticks increased after computation.
- ids argument to itoken. Simplifies assignement of ids to rows of DTM
- create_vocabulary now can handle stopwords
- see all updates here
2016-03-30 more robust split_into() util.

First CRAN release of text2vec.

Fast text vectorization with stable streaming API on arbitrary n-grams.
- Functions for vocabulary extraction and management
- Hash vectorizer (based on digest murmurhash3)
- Vocabulary vectorizer
GloVe algorithm word embeddings.
- Fast term-co-occurence matrix factorization via parallel async AdaGrad.
All core functions written in C++.