Press release - for immediate publication
Social Science Consulting now declares INTEXT text analysis software as
a public domain product. More information is provided at
http://www.intext.de. Manuals in English and German are available as
PDF-files also. INTEXT comes as it is (version 4.1, the last one
published 1998), no guarentee or warranty is given.
INTEXT is an MS-DOS based program that was originally developed for
computer aided content analysis and applications like coding responses
to open ended questions, analyses of mass media texts, personal ads etc.
It can produce word lists, KWICs (key-word-in-context), indices. The
most powerful types of analyses however are content analysis and
readability analysis.
The content analysis module has features like interactive coding of
ambiguous search patterns, negation detection (language independent and
programmable), and test of the category system whether search patterns
occur multiple times or are part of another. You will find much more
details on the web site above.
The readability analysis module computes 8 formulas (6 for English, 2
for German), e.g. Flesch's REI (reading ease index).
The windows version of INTEXT is called TextQuest
(http://www.textquest.de), both programs are file compatible. If you are
interested in readability analyses, TextQuest computes 60 formulas for 7
languages.
Social Science Consulting
Dr. Harald Klein
Brückengasse 12
07407 Rudolstadt
Germany
Tel/Fax: +49 3672 488494
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