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stemDocument: Stem Words

Description

Stem words in a text document using Porter's stemming algorithm.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'PlainTextDocument':
stemDocument(x, language = "english")

Arguments

x

A text document.

language

A character setting the language to be used for stemming.

Details

The argument language is passed over to SnowballStemmer as the name of the snowball stemmer.

Examples

data("crude")
crude[[1]]
stemDocument(crude[[1]])