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\name{txt_recode_ngram_fast}
\alias{txt_recode_ngram_fast}
\title{Fast n-gram recoding for multiword detection}
\usage{
txt_recode_ngram_fast(x, compound, ngram, sep = " ")
}
\arguments{
\item{x}{Character vector of tokens (e.g., lemmas or tokens)}

\item{compound}{Character vector of multiword expressions to match}

\item{ngram}{Integer vector indicating the length of each compound}

\item{sep}{String separator to use when joining tokens (default: " ")}
}
\value{
Character vector where matched n-grams are combined and subsequent
tokens (that were merged) are set to NA
}
\description{
Efficiently combines consecutive tokens into multiword expressions using C++.
This function scans text sequentially to identify and merge n-gram patterns.
}
\details{
When a multiword match is found:
\itemize{
\item The first position gets the combined multiword expression
\item Subsequent positions that were merged are set to NA
}

The function checks n-grams from longest to shortest to prioritize longer matches.

Performance: ~80-150x faster than pure R implementation for typical text data.
}
\examples{
tokens <- c("machine", "learning", "is", "cool", "machine", "learning")
compounds <- c("machine learning")
ngrams <- c(2)
txt_recode_ngram_fast(tokens, compounds, ngrams, " ")
# Returns: c("machine learning", NA, "is", "cool", "machine learning", NA)

}
