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TextPosition   
  • See Also
    • TextCases
    • TextContents
    • StringPosition
    • Containing
  • Related Guides
    • Text Content Types
    • Text Analysis
    • Natural Language Processing
    • See Also
      • TextCases
      • TextContents
      • StringPosition
      • Containing
    • Related Guides
      • Text Content Types
      • Text Analysis
      • Natural Language Processing

TextPosition[text,form]

gives a list of the starting and ending positions at which instances of form occur in text.

TextPosition[text,{form1,form2,…}]

gives an association of results for all the types formi.

TextPosition[text,formspec,n]

gives the positions of the first n cases found.

Details and Options
Details and Options Details and Options
Examples  
Basic Examples  
Scope  
ContentObject and Files  
Alternatives and Containing  
Options  
AcceptanceThreshold  
PerformanceGoal  
VerifyInterpretation  
Applications  
Word and Sentence Segmentation  
Parts of Speech  
Entities and Interpretable Objects  
Properties & Relations  
See Also
Related Guides
History
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BUILT-IN SYMBOL
  • See Also
    • TextCases
    • TextContents
    • StringPosition
    • Containing
  • Related Guides
    • Text Content Types
    • Text Analysis
    • Natural Language Processing
    • See Also
      • TextCases
      • TextContents
      • StringPosition
      • Containing
    • Related Guides
      • Text Content Types
      • Text Analysis
      • Natural Language Processing

TextPosition   

Listing of Text Content Types »

TextPosition[text,form]

gives a list of the starting and ending positions at which instances of form occur in text.

TextPosition[text,{form1,form2,…}]

gives an association of results for all the types formi.

TextPosition[text,formspec,n]

gives the positions of the first n cases found.

Details and Options

  • In TextPosition[text,form], text can be a string, a file with plain text, a ContentObject expression or a list of these text objects.
  • TextPosition[{text1,text2,…},…] gives cases for each texti.
  • Identification type form can be:
  • "type"any text content type (e.g. "Noun", "City")
    Entity[…,…]a specific entity of a text content type
    form1|form2|…
  • form matching any of the formi
  • Containing[outer,inner]forms of type outer containing type inner
    Verbatim["string"]a specific string to be matched exactly
    patterna string pattern to be matched
  • Possible choices for the property prop are:
  • "String"string of the identified text (default)
    "Position"start and end position of the string in text
    "Probability"estimated probability that the identification is correct
    "Interpretation"standard interpretation of the identified string
    "Snippet"a snippet around the identified string
    "HighlightedSnippet"a snippet with the identified string highlighted
    fapply f to the association containing all properties
    {prop1,prop2,…}a list of property specifications
  • The following options can be given:
  • AcceptanceThreshold Automaticminimum probability to accept identification
    PerformanceGoal Automaticfavor algorithms with specific advantages
    TargetDevice"CPU"whether CPU or GPU computation should be used for entity detection
    VerifyInterpretation Falsewhether interpretability should be verified

Examples

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Basic Examples  (6)

Find the nouns in a sentence:

Find currency amounts:

Find positions of cities, countries and dates in text:

Find all the locations and get their positions:

Find all references to New York City in a text:

Scope  (4)

ContentObject and Files  (2)

Find instances of colors in a ContentObject:

Find quantities in a File:

Alternatives and Containing  (2)

Use Alternatives to match multiple types:

Find all sentences in a string that contain currency amounts:

Find all sentences in a string that contain countries:

Combine Alternatives and Containing to form highly structured queries:

Options  (3)

AcceptanceThreshold  (1)

By default, all the detected entities have an estimated probability higher than 0.5:

Get only the entities that are highly probable to be correct by setting a high AcceptanceThreshold:

PerformanceGoal  (1)

Using PerformanceGoal->"Speed" can help to have faster detection, at the cost of lower accuracy:

VerifyInterpretation  (1)

By default, some entities cannot be interpreted, either because they are not correct or because they are not yet in the knowledgebase. In these cases, a string is returned instead of an interpretation:

Use VerifyInterpretation to filter out the entities that cannot be interpreted:

Applications  (6)

Word and Sentence Segmentation  (2)

Word segmentation preserves syntactic elements such as email addresses, URLs and Twitter handles:

All the non-whitespace characters are grabbed with forms "Word" and "Punctuation":

Sentence segmentation intelligently ignores acronyms and other misleading boundaries:

Parts of Speech  (2)

Return all words of a given part of speech:

Make a table of word clouds from parts of speech:

Entities and Interpretable Objects  (2)

Find countries:

Return interpreted strings as Entity objects:

Find currency amounts in a Wikipedia article:

Get currency amounts:

Properties & Relations  (1)

TextPosition handles the same types as TextCases and TextContents, and always identify the same substrings as these functions for a given type:

TextCases is a generalization of TextPosition:

See Also

TextCases  TextContents  StringPosition  Containing

Related Guides

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  • Text Content Types
  • ▪
  • Text Analysis
  • ▪
  • Natural Language Processing

History

Introduced in 2015 (10.2) | Updated in 2019 (12.0)

Wolfram Research (2015), TextPosition, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextPosition.html (updated 2019).

Text

Wolfram Research (2015), TextPosition, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextPosition.html (updated 2019).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2015. "TextPosition." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2019. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextPosition.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2015). TextPosition. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextPosition.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_textposition, author="Wolfram Research", title="{TextPosition}", year="2019", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextPosition.html}", note=[Accessed: 01-February-2026]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_textposition, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={TextPosition}, year={2019}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/TextPosition.html}, note=[Accessed: 01-February-2026]}

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