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17.20
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March 2024
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NGramSplitter

Description

The NGramSplitter function tokenizes (splits) an input stream of text and outputs n multigrams (called n-grams) based on the specified delimiter and reset parameters. NGramSplitter provides more flexibility than standard tokenization when performing text analysis. Many two-word phrases carry important meaning (for example, "machine learning") that unigrams (single-word tokens) do not capture. This, combined with additional analytical techniques, can be useful for performing sentiment analysis, topic identification, and document classification.
Note: This function is only available when tdplyr is connected to Vantage 1.1 or later versions.

Usage

  td_ngramsplitter_sqle (
      data = NULL,
      text.column = NULL,
      delimiter = " ",
      grams = NULL,
      overlapping = TRUE,
      to.lower.case = TRUE,
      punctuation = "`~#^&*()-",
      reset = ".,?!",
      total.gram.count = FALSE,
      total.count.column = "totalcnt",
      accumulate = NULL,
      n.gram.column = "ngram",
      num.grams.column = "n",
      frequency.column = "frequency",
      data.order.column = NULL
  )

Arguments

data

Required Argument.
Specifies input tbl_teradata where each row of the input contains a document to be tokenized. The input tbl_teradata can have additional rows, some or all of which the function returns in the output tbl_teradata.

data.order.column

Optional Argument.
Specifies Order By columns for "data".
Values to this argument can be provided as a vector, if multiple columns are used for ordering.
Types: character OR vector of Strings (character)

text.column

Required Argument.
Specifies the name of the column that contains the input text. Input columns must contain string SQL types.
Types: character

delimiter

Optional Argument.
Specifies a character or string that separates words in the input text. The default value is the set of all whitespace characters which includes the characters for space, tab, newline, carriage return and some others.
Default Value: " "
Types: character

grams

Required Argument.
A list of integers or ranges of integers that specify the length, in words, of each ngram (that is, the value of n). A range of values has the syntax integer1 - integer2, where integer1 <= integer2. The values of n, integer1, and integer2 must be positive.
Types:character OR vector of Strings (characters)

overlapping

Optional Argument.
Specifies whether the function allows overlapping n-grams. When this value is TRUE, each word in each sentence starts an n-gram, if enough words follow it (in the same sentence) to form a whole n-gram of the specified size. For information on sentences, see the description of the reset argument.
Default Value: TRUE
Types: logical

to.lower.case

Optional Argument.
Specifies whether the function converts all letters in the input text to lowercase.
Default Value: TRUE
Types: logical

punctuation

Optional Argument.
Specifies the punctuation characters for the function to remove before evaluating the input text. Default Value: "'~#^&*()-"
Types: character

reset

Optional Argument.
Specifies the character or string that ends a sentence. At the end of a sentence, the function discards any partial n-grams and searches for the next n-gram at the beginning of the next sentence. An n-gram cannot span two sentences.
Default Value: ".,?!"
Types: character

total.gram.count

Optional Argument.
Specifies whether the function returns the total number of n-grams in the document (that is, in the row). If you specify TRUE, then the name of the returned column is specified by the "total.count.column" argument.
Note: The total number of n-grams is not necessarily the number of unique n-grams.
Default Value: FALSE
Types: logical

total.count.column

Optional Argument.
Specifies the name of the column to return if the value of the "total.gram.count" argument is TRUE.
Default Value: "totalcnt"
Types: character

accumulate

Optional Argument.
Specifies the names of the columns to return for each n-gram. These columns cannot have the same names as those specified by the arguments "ngram", "num.grams.column", and "total.count.column". By default, the function returns all input columns for each n-gram.
Types: character OR vector of Strings (character)

n.gram.column

Optional Argument.
Specifies the name of the column that is to contain the generated n-grams.
Default Value: "ngram"
Types: character

num.grams.column

Optional Argument.
Specifies the name of the column that is to contain the length of n-gram (in words).
Default Value: "n"
Types: character

frequency.column

Optional Argument.
Specifies the name of the column that is to contain the count of each unique n-gram (that is, the number of times that each unique n-gram appears in the document).
Default Value: "frequency"
Types: character

Value

Function returns an object of class "td_ngramsplitter_sqle" which is a named list containing object of class "tbl_teradata".
Named list member can be referenced directly with the "$" operator using the name: result.

Examples

  
    # Get the current context/connection.
    con <- td_get_context()$connection

    # Load example data.
    loadExampleData("ngram_example", "paragraphs_input")

    # Create object(s) of class "tbl_teradata".
    paragraphs_input <- tbl(con, "paragraphs_input")

    # Example 1 -
    # Creates output for tokenized data on grams values.
    td_ngramsplitter_sqle_out1 <- td_ngramsplitter_sqle(data = paragraphs_input,
                                     text.column = "paratext",
                                     delimiter = " ",
                                     grams = c("4-6"),
                                     overlapping = TRUE,
                                     punctuation = "[.,?!]",
                                     reset = "[.,?!]",
                                     accumulate = c("paraid","paratopic")
                                     )

    # Example 2 -
    # Creates total count column with default column totalcnt if "overlapping" is
    # specified as FALSE.
    td_ngramsplitter_sqle_out2 <- td_ngramsplitter_sqle(data = paragraphs_input,
                                     text.column = "paratext",
                                     delimiter = " ",
                                     grams = c("4-6"),
                                     overlapping = FALSE,
                                     punctuation = "[.,?!]",
                                     reset = "[.,?!]",
                                     accumulate = c("paraid","paratopic")
                                     )