Press release - for immediate publication
One of the most time consuming tasks in computer aided content analysis
is the development of a category system (dictionary). Although some of
these are well known and could be used, it is often connected with
software. TextQuest users can use the following category systems now:
1. Colin Martindale's RID (Regressive Imagery Dictionary) for English
and German: 65 categories and 3939 (English) rsp. 6802 (German) entries.
2. Harvard Psychological Dictionary: 83 categories plus combinations,
total 105 categorie with 3223 entries.
3. Hamburger kommunikationssoziologisches Wörterbuch (HKW) for German:
99 categories (some are empty) with approx 5000 entries. The original
version (March 1973) is currently overhauled to make use of the
TextQuest specialities for defining search patterns (e.g. strings at the
end and/or in the middle of a word).
All these category systems are now part of the TextQuest distribution
excluding test and student licenses. The necessary files for category
labels and search patterns are provided and allow an immediate
processing with TextQuest (and compatibles like CoAn and Intext).
At last I want to thank the authors for their allowance to use their
category systems.
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Social Science Consulting
Dr. Harald Klein
Chief Executive Officer - Geschäftsführer
Brückengasse 12
07407 Rudolstadt
Germany
Tel/Fax: +49 3672 488494
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