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preprocessReut21578XML: Preprocess the Reuters21578 XML archive.

Description

Preprocess the Reuters21578 XML archive by correcting invalid UTF-8 encodings and copying each text document into a separate file.

Usage

preprocessReut21578XML(ReutersDir, ReutersOapfDir, fixEnc = TRUE)

Arguments

ReutersDir

a character describing the input directory.

ReutersOapfDir

a character describing the output directory.

fixEnc

a logical value indicating whether a invalid UTF-8 encoding in the Reuters21578 XML dataset should be corrected.

Value

• No explicit return value. As a side product the directory ReutersOapfDir contains the corrected dataset.

References

Lewis, David (1997) Reuters-21578 Text Categorization Collection Distribution 1.0. http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/databases/reuters21578/reuters21578.html

Luz, Saturnino XML-encoded version of Reuters-21578. http://modnlp.berlios.de/reuters21578.html