Thanks for the information! I will check out Qualrus.
Patricia Campion
qual-software <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>Hi, Patricia,
>
>I am told by folks in Canada who are using Qualrus for a very large
>qualitative analysis project that it handles the French language text
>fine,
>including all of the accents and features of French that sometimes trip up
>programs. They are actually using the program to analyze open-ended
>responses in both French and English to a web site in which the Canadian
>government asked Canadian citiziens for their suggestions and opinions on
>foreign policy--an exciting and worthy project in my estimation and we are
>proud to contribute in some small way to it. Qualrus is able to detect
>text
>phrases in either language simultaneously and assign codes, so they can
>use
>the one set of codes to analyze both the English and Francophone dataset.
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>Note that I am one of the developers of Qualrus, so I leave it to others
>to
>comment on how well the program handles the various languages. If you
>would
>like to talk to them I can put you in touch.
>
>Ed Brent
>
>Edward Brent, Ph.D.
>President, Idea Works, Inc.
>100 West Briarwood
>Columbia, Missouri 65203 USA
>(573) 445-4554
>(573) 446-2199 (fax)
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>www.ideaworks.com
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Patricia Campion" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 7:12 PM
>Subject: interviews in Spanish
>
>
>> Greetings,
>> I am currently on a project that involves interviews in English and
>> Spanish, which are transcribed on an English keyboard. I am using
>N-VIVO,
>> but it only reads rich text, which means that a lot of my Spanish
>> characters don't transfer well. Does anybody know of a software
>> application that would allow for transfer of data with foreign-language
>> characters (accents, tilde, etc...)?
>> Thanks for your input,
>> Patricia Campion
>>
>> Dr. Patricia Campion, PhD
>> Research Ethnographer
>> Applied Research Center
>> 224 West Lacey Boulevard
>> Hanford, CA 93230
>> (559)589-6956 phone
>> (559)589-6958 fax
>> (559)816-1895 cell
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
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