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word2vec (version 0.4.0)

txt_clean_word2vec: Text cleaning specific for input to word2vec

Description

Standardise text by

  • Conversion of text from UTF-8 to ASCII

  • Keeping only alphanumeric characters: letters and numbers

  • Removing multiple spaces

  • Removing leading/trailing spaces

  • Performing lowercasing

Usage

txt_clean_word2vec(x, ascii = TRUE, alpha = TRUE, tolower = TRUE, trim = TRUE)

Value

a character vector of the same length as x

which is standardised by converting the encoding to ascii, lowercasing and keeping only alphanumeric elements

Arguments

x

a character vector in UTF-8 encoding

ascii

logical indicating to use iconv to convert the input from UTF-8 to ASCII. Defaults to TRUE.

alpha

logical indicating to keep only alphanumeric characters. Defaults to TRUE.

tolower

logical indicating to lowercase x. Defaults to TRUE.

trim

logical indicating to trim leading/trailing white space. Defaults to TRUE.

Examples

Run this code
x <- c("  Just some.texts,  ok?", "123.456 and\tsome MORE!  ")
txt_clean_word2vec(x)

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