[ENH] Process text

[samukweku]

PR Description

Please describe the changes proposed in the pull request:

• Modifies only existing column
• Deprecate new_column_names and merge_frame
• keeping it simple (and easier to maintain)

This PR improves process_text.

PR Checklist

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1. PR in from a fork off your branch. Do not PR from <your_username>:dev, but rather from <your_username>:<feature-branch_name>.

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3. Add a line to CHANGELOG.md under the latest version header (i.e. the one that is "on deck") describing the contribution.
   • Do use some discretion here; if there are multiple PRs that are related, keep them in a single line.

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• Building a preview of the docs on Netlify
• Automatically linting the code
• Making sure the code is documented
• Making sure that all tests are passed
• Making sure that code coverage doesn't go down.

Relevant Reviewers

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• @ericmjl

[codecov]

Codecov Report

Merging #878 (932fed8) into dev (ab6ae49) will decrease coverage by 0.14%.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

@@            Coverage Diff             @@
##              dev     #878      +/-   ##
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- Coverage   95.93%   95.79%   -0.15%     
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  Files          19       19              
  Lines        2660     2618      -42     
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- Hits         2552     2508      -44     
- Misses        108      110       +2     

[ericmjl]

I think I know what's going on with the code coverage - when dev has more lines of code than PR branch, it'll detect a decrease in the code coverage. Probably continually merging dev into the PR branch will fix that problem.

[samukweku]

@nvamsikrishna05 @loganthomas @ericmjl can I bother you a tiny bit to have a look at this PR. thanks

[nvamsikrishna05]

Looks good. 👍

[ericmjl]

Only one minor change requested, @samukweku 😄.

When it's done, @nvamsikrishna05 please do the honors!

[ericmjl]

Let's take this line up to the top.

[samukweku]

@nvamsikrishna05, my apologies; can i bother u with this PR? A second look and possible merge if all is good

[nvamsikrishna05]

@samukweku Looks good. Sorry, I missed this PR for so long. Go ahead and merge it once all checks pass.