9 Appendix

This table describes the 42 functions available in HistText as of November 2023.

Control Functions
accepts_date_queries	Check if a corpus accepts date   queries
get_default_ner_model	Get the name of the default NER   model for a given corpus
get_error_status	Retrieve the error status of a   response.
get_server_status	Get the status of the server
list_corpora	List available collections in SolR
Query Functions
search_documents	Search for documents
search_documents_ex	Extended Search for documents
search_concordance	KWIC Search In ENP Corpora
search_concordance_ex	Extended KWIC Search In ENP   Corpora
search_concordance_on_df	KWIC search in a custom dataframe
get_documents	Retrieve document from ID
count_documents	Get the number of articles   matching a query, by date
count_search_documents	Count the number of documents that   can be returned by a query
view_document	View a single document in RStudio
Data extraction functions
ner_on_corpus	Apply Named Entity Recognition on   a corpus
ner_on_df	Apply Named Entity Recognition on   the specified column of a dataframe
run_ner	Apply Named Entity Recognition on   a string
run_qa	Apply Question-Answering on a   string
qa_on_corpus	Apply Named Entity Recognition on   a corpus
qa_on_df	Apply Named Entity Recognition on   the specified column of a dataframe
extract_regexps_from_subcorpus	apply a collection of Regexps to a   collection of documents
Advanced functions
list_search_fields	List possible search fields for a   given corpus
get_search_fields_content	Retrieve the content associated   with each search field
list_filter_fields	List possible filter fields for a   given corpus
list_ner_models	List available NER models on the   server
list_possible_filters	List possible filter values for a   given filter field
list_precomputed_corpora	List corpora with precomputed   annotations
list_precomputed_fields	List fields of a given corpus that   have precomputed annotations
list_qa_models	List available NER models on the   server
load_pdf_as_df	Load the text from a PDF into a   data frame
proquest_view	Display an entry from ProQuest Corpus
Chinese-specific functions
list_cws_models	List available CWS models on the   server
run_cws	Apply Chinese Word Segmentation on   a string
get_default_cws_model	Get the name of the default CWS   model for a given corpus
cws_on_corpus	Apply Chinese Word Segmentation on   a corpus
cws_on_df	Apply Chinese Word Segmentation on   the specified column of a dataframe
sinograms_to_py	sinograms(漢字) to pinyin conversion
wade_to_py	wade-giles to pinyin conversion
Graph functions
get_padagraph_url	Send a tidygraph to padagraph and   return the URL
in_padagraph	Send a tidygraph to padagraph and   displays it
load_in_padagraph	Load and send a previously saved   graph object into padagraph
save_graph	Save a tidygraph into a file
Server functions
query_server_get	GET a resource from the server
query_server_post	POST a file to the server
set_config_file	Sets the config file in order to   specify the server URL to use (+ other needed information).