Clean Comments — clean.comment • theHUB

Normalize (aka clean) comments to reduce the number of small counts for similar or related words.

Usage

clean.comment(comment)

Arguments

comment: string of characters (usually text) to be evaluated and unified. Alternatively, the column containing the comments can be passed to the function as often is done via dplyr::mutate()

Value

vector of comments where predetermined terms are cleaned. NOTE: Some cleaned terms are returned in camel case. For example, "e-mail" is returned as "eMail" and "face to face" and "face-to-face" are returned as "faceTOface".

Details

Often similar words or ideas have different forms depending on their location within a sentence. For example, the term "advisor" can have three different forms within a comment: "adviser", "advisers", "advisors" and all three are converted (transformed) to "advisor".

Author

Emilio Xavier Esposito emilio.esposito@gmail.com (https://github.com/emilioxavier)

Examples

comment <- "All day I see class mates and send e-mails.   I miss East Lansing."

clean.comment(comment=comment)
#> [1] "allDay i see classmate and send eMail. i instructor eastLansing."
# "allDay i see classmate and send eMail. i miss eastLansing."