Removing words and initials with tm

Hi Sun,
No, I was thinking of something like hunspell, which seems to fit into 
the sort of work that you are doing.

Jim


On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Sun Shine <phaedrusv at gmail.com 
<mailto:phaedrusv at gmail.com>> wrote:

    Thanks Jeff.

    I'll add that to the ever-growing list my current studies are
    generating daily. :-)

    Cheers
    S



    On 10/04/15 14:32, Jeff Newmiller wrote:

        "I suspect that it might have something to do with regular
        expressions, but to be honest, I'm (currently) pretty crap
        with those."

        I cannot think of a better incentive to take action on this
        hole in your education and buckle down to learn regular
        expressions. There are many books and tutorials available.
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        On April 10, 2015 3:19:51 AM PDT, Sun Shine
        <phaedrusv at gmail.com <mailto:phaedrusv at gmail.com>> wrote:

            Hi list

            Using the tm package, part of the pre-processing work is
            to remove
            words, etc. from the corpus.

            I wish to remove people's names and also their initials
            which are
            peppered throughout the corpus. But, because some people's
            initials are

            the same as parts of common words - e.g. 'am' = 'became'
            => 'bec e' or
            'ec' = 'because' => 'b ause' or 'ar' = 'arrival' =>
            'rival' (which has
            a
            completely different meaning).

            Is there any way of doing this without leaving a trail of
            nonsense
            half-terms behind? I suspect that it might have something
            to do with
            regular expressions, but to be honest, I'm (currently)
            pretty crap with

            those.

            Would it make a difference if I removed initials and names
            *prior* to
            converting all text to lower case, so I remove 'AM' and
            because
            'became'
            is lower case, it should remain unaffected?

            Any recommendations on how best to proceed with this?

            Thanks as always.
            Sun