NEWS

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newsmap 0.9.1

• Add boolean to textmodel_newsmap().

newsmap 0.9.0 (2024-05-23)

• Add Turkish seed dictionary
• Add as.dictionary() for textmodel_newsmap.

newsmap 0.8.4

• Add select to coef() and improve its documentation

newsmap 0.8.3 (2023-10-07)

• Fix for changes in the Matrix package v1.5

newsmap 0.8.2 (2023-03-16)

• Add min_conf to predict()
• Add experimental argument entropy to textmodel_newsmap()

newsmap 0.8.1 (2022-05-09)

• Update the seed words for UA (#64)

newsmap 0.8.0 (2022-04-11)

• Add Portuguese dictionary
• Add "Saigon" to VE in selected languages (#47)
• Add label and drop_label to textmodel_newsmap()
• Add rescale and min_n to predict()
• Add print() methods for fitted models

newsmap 0.7.4 (2021-05-18)

• Change predicted values to factor with all labels in training data

newsmap 0.7.3 (2020-12-18)

• Update tests for quanteda v3.0

newsmap 0.7.2 (2020-08-03)

• Make predict() significantly faster

newsmap 0.7.1 (2020-02-02)

• Improve efficiency of textmodel_newsmap()
• Add compatibility with newer textstat_entropy()

newsmap 0.7.0 (2019-12-11)

• Add Hebrew and Arabic seed dictionaries

newsmap 0.6.9 (2019-07-29)

• Clean up Italian, German and Spanish seed dictionaries

newsmap 0.6.8 (2019-07-25)

• Add Italian seed dictionary

newsmap 0.6.7 (2019-04-23)

Dictionary updates

• Correct Japanese seed words for DE, MG and EC

newsmap 0.6.4 (2019-02-24)

Bug fixes

• Return NA for documents that do not have known features
• Drop document variables to avoid slowdown and warnings

New data

• Add Chinese (simplified and traditional) seed dictionaries
• Add French seed dictionary

New function

• Add a function to compute average feature entropy (AFE)

newsmap 0.6.0

Bug fixes

• Fix error in textmodel_newsmap() when smooth is < 1.0
• Fitted models no longer include classes that did not occur in training set

newsmap 0.4.6

New functions

• Add coef() and coefficients() methods

Dictionary updates

• Add Russian language seed dictionary
• Correct Cook Islands' country code from CC to CK, and remove it from POL
• De facto capital cities of TZ, ZA, NG and BO are added to all dictionaries
• CC is added to DE, JA and EN dictionaries
• Dictionary entries are sorted in alphabetical order of country code