Can you recommend a text mining package in R that can be used against large volumes of data?
Secondly, is there a GUI available for any of the text mining packages in R?
Thirdly, is there another open source text mining program that is easy and intuitive to use?
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$\begingroup$ @mbq: well, "is there an open source text mining package with a GUI?" would probably cover all three questions pretty well, it kind of already is one question... $\endgroup$– naught101Commented May 4, 2012 at 2:54
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Please see the CRAN Task View on Natural Language Processing which includes, among others, the tm package already mentioned by Josh.
answered Feb 14, 2011 at 20:50
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See the tm package and this presentation by Stefan Theussl given at the 2010 R/Finance conference.
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Here are two further integrated projects:
- Python Natural Language Toolkit (easy installation, good documentation)
- Java MALLET (no experience with it, but looks promising; included in the link given by @Nick)
Both are open-source software.
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Sure, RapidMiner with the text mining extension.
There are many videos that show how it is done.
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2$\begingroup$ here is a 5-part video series: vancouverdata.blogspot.com/2010/11/… $\endgroup$ Commented Feb 21, 2011 at 20:52
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GATE is very comprehensive. It also allows you to work with different languages and has an ontology editor.
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Andrew McCallum (UMass) has a few NLP related software projects available on his webpage. These are all in Java (I think) with source code available.
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Besides the CRAN Task View on Natural Language Processing mentioned by Dirk, there are quanteda package and NLP package.
