arabicStemR-package {arabicStemR}R Documentation

A package for stemming Arabic for text analysis.

Description

This package is a stemmer for texts in Arabic (Modern Standard). The stemmer is loosely based on the light 10 stemmer, but with a number of modifications.

Details

Use the stemArabic function.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Rich Nielsen <rnielsen@mit.edu>

See Also

stemArabic

Examples

## generate some text in Arabic
x <- "\u628\u633\u645 \u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647
     \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062D\u0645\u0646 
     \u0627\u0644\u0631\u062D\u064A\u0645"

## stem and transliterate
stemArabic(x)

## stem while not stemming certain words
stem(x, dontStemTheseWords = c("alr7mn"))

## stem and return the stemlist
out <- stemArabic(x,returnStemList=TRUE)
out$text
out$stemlist
[Package arabicStemR version 1.3 Index]