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Reuters21578Document: Reuters-21578 Text Document

Description

Construct an object representing a Reuters-21578 XML text document with meta information.

Usage

Reuters21578Document(x, author = character(0),
                     datetimestamp = as.POSIXlt(Sys.time(), tz = "GMT"),
                     description = character(0), heading = character(0),
                     id = character(0), origin = character(0),
                     language = character(0), localmetadata = list())

Arguments

x

Object of class list containing the content.

author

Object of class character containing the author names.

datetimestamp

Object of class POSIXlt containing the date and time when the document was written.

description

Object of class character containing additional text information.

heading

Object of class character containing the title or a short heading.

id

Object of class character containing an identifier.

origin

Object of class character containing information on the source and origin of the text.

language

Object of class character containing the language of the text (preferably as IETF language tags).

localmetadata

Object of class list containing local meta data in form of tag-value pairs.

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

See Also

PlainTextDocument and RCV1Document