qdap 2.2.0

Search For Synonyms

Usage

synonyms(terms, return.list = TRUE, multiwords = TRUE, report.null = TRUE, synonym.frame = qdapDictionaries::key.syn)


syn(terms, return.list = TRUE, multiwords = TRUE, report.null = TRUE, synonym.frame = qdapDictionaries::key.syn)


synonyms_frame(synonym.list, prior.frame)


syn_frame(synonym.list, prior.frame)

Arguments

terms
The terms to find synonyms for.
return.list
logical. If TRUE returns the output for multiple synonyms as a list by search term rather than a vector.
multiwords
logical. IF TRUE retains vector elements that contain phrases (defined as having one or more spaces) rather than a single word.
report.null
logical. If TRUE reports the words that no match was found at the head of the output.
synonym.frame
A dataframe or hash key of positive/negative words and weights.
synonym.list
A named list of lists (or vectors) of synonyms.
prior.frame
A prior synonyms data.frame in the format produced by synonyms_frame.

Search For Synonyms

Value

Returns a list of vectors or vector of possible words that match term(s).

Description

synonyms - Search for synonyms that match term(s).

synonyms_frame - Generate a synonym lookup hash key for use with the synonym.frame argument in the synonym function.

References

The synonyms dictionary (see key.syn) was generated by web scraping the Reverso Online Dictionary. The word list fed to Reverso is the unique words from the combination of DICTIONARY and labMT.

Examples

## <strong>Not run</strong>: 
# synonyms(c("the", "cat", "job", "environment", "read", "teach"))
# head(syn(c("the", "cat", "job", "environment", "read", "teach"),
#     return.list = FALSE), 30)
# syn(c("the", "cat", "job", "environment", "read", "teach"), multiwords = FALSE)
# 
# ## User defined synonym lookup
# syn_dat <- list(
#     like = list(c("want", "desire"), c("love", "care")),
#     show = list(c("reveal"), c("movie", "opera")),
#     R = c("old friend", "statistics language")
# )
# 
# synonyms_frame(syn_dat)
# syn(c("R", "show"), synonym.frame = syn_frame(syn_dat))
# 
# syns.hash <- syn_frame(syn_dat, prior.frame = qdapDictionaries::key.syn)
# syn(c("R", "show", "like", "robot"), synonym.frame = syns.hash)
# ## <strong>End(Not run)</strong>