Processing Textual Data

Mathematica has uniquely flexible capabilities for processing large volumes of textual data. Most often data represented as a string is converted to lists or other constructs which can then be manipulated using Mathematica's powerful symbolic language constructs.

Import — import data from files or the web

"Text" , "PDF" , "TeX" , "HTML" — pick out plain text, table data, etc.

FindList — search files for records containing particular strings

StringSplit — split a string into words, sentences, etc.

StringCount — count occurrences of words, etc.

StringCases — find instances of a string pattern

StringExpression — match symbolic string patterns

Sort — sort into alphabetical order

Tally — tally numbers of identical strings

Nearest — find the closest-matching string from a list

FindClusters — find clusters in string data

EditDistance — edit or Levenshtein distance

SequenceAlignment — find matching sequences in strings

Hash — find a hash code using a variety of schemes

DictionaryLookup — look up words in English and other dictionaries

WordData — find semantic, grammatical, morphological etc. properties of words

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