mince {acroname}

Prepare input string

Description

This helper is used by both acronym and initialism to extract elements needed from the input string.

If the function is used with bow = TRUE the input will be processed with a "bag of words" approach, by which words will be shuffled and sampled without replacement. In this case, the number of characters used will be determined by the proportion passed to "bow_prop".

Usage

mince(
  input,
  ignore_articles = TRUE,
  alnum_only = TRUE,
  bow = FALSE,
  bow_prop = 0.5
)

Arguments

input

Character vector with text to use as the input for the candidate

ignore_articles

Logical indicating whether or not articles should be ignored ; default is TRUE

alnum_only

Logical that specifes whether only alphanumeric should be used; default is TRUE

bow

Logical for whether or not a "bag of words" approach should be used for "input" vector; default is FALSE

bow_prop

Given bow = TRUE this specifies the proportion of words to sample; ignored if bow = FALSE; default is 0.5

Value

Named list with the following elements:

• words: Vector with one element per word to be used in the acronym or initialism

• collapsed: Vector of length 1 containing all characters from words collapsed

• words_len: Vector containing length of each word

• first_chars: Vector containing first character from each word