contains_entities: Contains Entities

In tcspears/neRtools: Assorted R functions to aid extraction of named entities using OpenNLP

Description

Determines whether a text input contains any entities of a pre-specified type, and reports those entities.

Usage

contains_entities(input, entities, model.list)

Arguments

input	A character vector of text to be analysed.
entities	A character vector of named entities.
model.list	A model list, produced using load_nlp_models.

Value

A list containing: (a) a logical vector specifying whether each entity named in 'entities' was found in the text, and (b) a list of the identified entities.

Examples

a <- load_nlp_models(entities=c("sentence","word","POS","person"))
input <- "This is a test."
entities <- c("POS/NNP","person")
contains_entities(input,entities,model.list=a)

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