Provides a framework to download, parse, and store text
    datasets on the disk and load them when needed. Includes various
    sentiment lexicons and labeled text data sets for classification and
    analysis.

Implements the approach described in Fong and Grimmer (2016) <https://aclweb.org/anthology/P/P16/P16-1151.pdf> for 
	automatically discovering latent treatments from a corpus and estimating the average marginal component effect (AMCE) of 
	each treatment.  The data is divided into a training and test set.  The supervised Indian Buffet Process (sibp) is used 
	to discover latent treatments in the training set.  The fitted model is then applied to the test set to infer the values 
	of the latent treatments in the test set.  Finally, Y is regressed on the latent treatments in the test set to estimate 
	the causal effect of each treatment.

Implement text and sentiment analysis with 'texter'. 
             Generate sentiment scores on text data and also visualize sentiments.
             'texter' allows you to quickly generate insights on your data.
             It includes support for lexicons such as 'NRC' and 'Bing'.

Provides functionalities based on the paper "Time Varying Dictionary and the Predictive Power of FED Minutes" (Lima, 2018) <doi:10.2139/ssrn.3312483>. It selects the most predictive terms, that we call time-varying dictionary using supervised machine learning techniques as lasso and elastic net.

The software application Praat can be used to annotate
    waveform data (e.g., to mark intervals of interest or to label events).
    (See <http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/> for more information about Praat.)
    These annotations are stored in a Praat TextGrid object, which consists of
    a number of interval tiers and point tiers. An interval tier consists of
    sequential (i.e., not overlapping) labeled intervals. A point tier consists
    of labeled events that have no duration. The 'textgRid' package provides
    S4 classes, generics, and methods for accessing information that is stored
    in Praat TextGrid objects.