Mastering Text Mining with R

R packages for text mining

There is a wide range of packages available in R for natural language processing. Some of them are as follows.

OpenNLP

OpenNLP is an R package which provides an interface, Apache OpenNLP, which is a machine-learning-based toolkit written in Java for natural language processing activities. Apache OpenNLP is widely used for most common tasks in NLP, such as tokenization, POS tagging, named entity recognition (NER), chunking, parsing, and so on. It provides wrappers for Maxent entropy models using the Maxent Java package.

It provides functions for sentence annotation, word annotation, POS tag annotation, and annotation parsing using the Apache OpenNLP chunking parser. The Maxent Chunk annotator function computes the chunk ...