The Open Cybernetics & Systemics Journal

2015, 9 : 2536-2544
Published online 2015 October 22. DOI: 10.2174/1874110X01509012536
Publisher ID: TOCSJ-9-2536

Secrets of the Secrets: Text Mining on Dao Canon

Yubing Yang , Jue Jin , Shui Wang and Le Wang
School of Information Engineering, Ningbo Dahongying University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, 315175, P.R. China.

ABSTRACT

Dao Canon are ancient Chinese documents that recorded the never-ending efforts of Taoists to longevity and supernatural powers. Text mining analysis may help better understand these documents. This chapter performs text mining on Dao Canon synopsis text utilizing the arulesSequences and tm packages of R, and introduces some related techs & tricks in dealing with Chinese literals.

Keywords:

Ancient chinese, dao canon, daoism, text mining.