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"Word" (Text Content Type)

See Also
- TextWords
- TextCases
- TextPosition
- TextSentences
- TextStructure
- WordData
- Entity Types
- Word
- Interpreter Types
- Word
- Text Contents
- Punctuation
- Sentence
- Whitespace
- Noun
- ProperNoun
- Pronoun
- Verb
- Number
Related Guides
- Text Content Types
- See Also
  - TextWords
  - TextCases
  - TextPosition
  - TextSentences
  - TextStructure
  - WordData
  - Entity Types
  - Word
  - Interpreter Types
  - Word
  - Text Contents
  - Punctuation
  - Sentence
  - Whitespace
  - Noun
  - ProperNoun
  - Pronoun
  - Verb
  - Number
- Related Guides
  - Text Content Types

"Word" (Text Content Type)

A word-like unit, usually delimited by whitespace or punctuation.

Details

"Word" can be used in TextCases, TextPosition and TextContents.

Examples

Basic Examples (4)

Segment a sentence into words:

Contractions and hyphenated compound words are detected as single words:

Punctuations between sentences are not detected as words:

Get the result as a list of "Word" entities:

TextCases[…,"Word"] is equivalent to TextWords:

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