R: Complete Stems

stemCompletion {tm} | R Documentation

## Complete Stems

### Description

Heuristically complete stemmed words.

### Usage

    stemCompletion(x,
                   dictionary,
                   type = c("prevalent", "first", "longest",
                            "none", "random", "shortest"))

### Arguments

`x` | A character vector of stems to be completed.
`dictionary` | A `Corpus` or character vector to be searched for possible completions.
`type` | A `character` naming the heuristics to be used: `prevalent` Default. Takes the most frequent match as completion. `first` Takes the first found completion. `longest` Takes the longest completion in terms of characters. `none` Is the identity. `random` Takes some completion. `shortest` Takes the shortest completion in terms of characters.

### Value

A character vector with completed words.

### References

Ingo Feinerer (2010). Analysis and Algorithms for Stemming Inversion. Information Retrieval Technology — 6th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, AIRS 2010, Taipei, Taiwan, December 1–3, 2010. Proceedings, volume 6458 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 290–299. Springer-Verlag, December 2010.

### Examples

    data("crude")
    stemCompletion(c("compan", "entit", "suppl"), crude)

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