qdap (version 0.2.5)

end_mark: Sentence End marks

Description

Grab the sentence end marks for a transcript. This can be useful to categorize based on sentence type.

Usage

end_mark(text.var)

Arguments

text.var

The text variable.

Value

• Returns a character vector of qdap end marks for each sentence. End marks include:
• "."
  Declarative sentence.
• "?"
  Question sentence.
• "!"
  Exclamatory sentence.
• "|"
  Incomplete sentence.
• "*."
  Imperative-declarative sentence.
• "*?"
  Imperative-question sentence (unlikely to occur)
• "*!"
  Imperative-exclamatory sentence.
• "*|"
  Imperative-incomplete sentence.
• "no.em"
  No end mark.
• "blank"
  Empty cell/NA.

Examples

end_mark(DATA$state)
end_mark(mraja1spl$dialogue)
ques <- mraja1spl[end_mark(mraja1spl$dialogue) == "?", ] #grab questions
htruncdf(ques)
non.ques <- mraja1spl[end_mark(mraja1spl$dialogue) != "?", ] #non questions
htruncdf(non.ques, 20)
ques.per <- mraja1spl[end_mark(mraja1spl$dialogue) %in% c(".", "?"), ] #grab ? and .
htruncdf(ques.per, 20)