PROC TEXTMINE processes a collection of legal contracts. The RULES statement is included in the PROC TEXTMINE call. What does the RULES statement enable?
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Here's the deal — b is correct because the RULES statement in PROC TEXTMINE allows analysts to define custom term synonyms, equivalences, and grouping rules. For example, 'liability' and 'liabilities' and 'liable' can be grouped under a single concept.
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B is correct because the RULES statement in PROC TEXTMINE allows analysts to define custom term synonyms, equivalences, and grouping rules. For example, 'liability' and 'liabilities' and 'liable' can be grouped under a single concept. This is applied during parsing before the term-document matrix construction, improving the quality of text features for downstream analysis. A is wrong; document filtering is done at the data preparation stage, not RULES. C is wrong; association rule mining (Apriori) is done by PROC DMDB/Enterprise Miner, not PROC TEXTMINE RULES. D is wrong; regular expression entity extraction is done by the Text Parsing CAS action or SAS Visual Text Analytics, not PROC TEXTMINE RULES.