extract_text_similarities {poldis}R Documentation

Extract similarities and differences in texts/segments

Description

Extract similarities and differences in texts/segments

Usage

extract_text_similarities(v, comparison = "similarities", method)

Arguments

v

Text vector or annotated data frame.

comparison

How would you like to compare texts? Options are "similarities", for comparing similarities, or "differences", for comparing differences. Defaults to "similarities".

method

A method for checking similarities or differences between texts. For similarities, defaults to "correlation" method. Other methods for similarities include "cosine", "jaccard", "ejaccard", "dice", "edice", "simple matching", and "hamann". For differences, defaults to "euclidean". Other methods for differences include "manhattan", "maximum", "canberra", and "minkowski". For more information on each of these methods and what are the implications in selecting a method, please see '?quanteda.textstats::textstat_simil()'.

Value

A matrix of similarity scores between texts.


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