"River" (Text Content Type)
"River" (Text Content Type)
Text identified as the name of a river.
Details
- "River" can be used in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.
- "River" corresponds to any mention of a river (real or not real) in the context of the text.
- Homonyms of rivers that are not rivers should not be detected as "River" (if the context allows disambiguation).
- TextCases[…,"River""Interpretation"] attempts to return entities of type "River", as Interpreter["River"] does.
- Any specific "River" entity such as
can also be used as a content type in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.
Examples
Basic Examples (3)
Find occurrences of rivers in a text:
TextCases["This included the Nan River basin, a tributary of the Chao Phraya, which is home to a number of taxa (for example, Ambastaia nigrolineata and Sectoria) otherwise only known from Mekong.", "River"]Get the result as a list of "River" entities:
TextCases["This included the Nan River basin, a tributary of the Chao Phraya, which is home to a number of taxa (for example, Ambastaia nigrolineata and Sectoria) otherwise only known from Mekong.", "River" -> "Interpretation", VerifyInterpretation -> True]A similar result can be obtained by applying Interpreter["River"] to text snippets:
Interpreter["River"][{"Nan River", "Chao Phraya", "Mekong"}]Get properties about occurrences of rivers:
TextContents["This included the Nan River basin, a tributary of the Chao Phraya, which is home to a number of taxa (for example, Ambastaia nigrolineata and Sectoria) otherwise only known from Mekong.", "River", All]Find mentions of Chao Phraya River in a text:
TextContents["It is believed that the upper Mekong was connected to Chao Phraya (rather than present-day lower Mekong) until the Quaternary, which explains the similarities in their river faunas. This included the Nan River basin, a tributary of the Chao Phraya, which is home to a number of taxa (for example, Ambastaia nigrolineata and Sectoria) otherwise only known from Mekong. Of the fish species known from the Chao Phraya-Mae Klong, only about 50 are absent from the Mekong.", Entity["River", "ChaoPhraya::35t98"]]