Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:26:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Fellbaum, Christiane. "A Semantic Network of English: The Mother
of All WordNets." Computers and the Humanities 32, no. 2-3
(1998): 209-220.
The author provides an overview of the WordNet database and
discusses how it can be used in stylistic analyses of literary
texts.
Klewicki, Lisa L., Jeffrey P. Bjorck, Christopher A. Leucht, and
Michael Goodman. "Patient Impairment Lexicon: A Psychometric
Analysis." Psychological Reports 83, no. 2 (1998): 547-570.
Doctoral students in clinical psychology read narrative
vignettes regarding patients referred for clinical evaluation.
There was high interrater reliability regarding the presence or
absence of most of the 63 impairments listed in the Patient
Impairment Lexicon (a classification system used in clinical
psychology). However, there was low (often extremely low)
interrater reliability concerning the severity of the
impairments.
Maercker, Andreas, George A. Bonanno, Hansjoerg Znoj, and Mardi
J. Horowitz. "Prediction of Complicated Grief by Positive and
Negative Themes in Narratives." Journal of Clinical
Psychology 54, no. 8 (1998): 1117-1136.
Participants who had recently lost spouses were asked to describe
memories regarding their spouses. The presence of positive and
negative themes in these narratives proved good predictors of
grief-related symptoms assessed 14 months after the death of the
spouse. More specifically, positive themes predicted lower
levels of grief, while negative themes predicted higher levels.
McKnight, Katherine S., and Herbert J. Walberg. "Neural Network
Analysis of Student Essays." Journal of Research and
Development in Education 32, no. 1 (1998): 26-31.
A computer-supported analysis of word frequency and word
co-occurrences in student essays was used to identify the most
common themes in these essays. The authors suggest that such
analyses can play an important role in educational assessment.
Satterfield, Jason M. "Cognitive-Affective States Predict
Military and Political Aggression and Risk Taking: A Content
Analysis of Churchill, Hitler, Roosevelt, and Stalin."
Journal of Conflict Resolution 42, no. 6 (1998): 667-690.
Military and political aggression and risk taking were often
preceded by manifestations of increasing optimism and decreasing
integrative complexity (i.e., the breadth and depth of
decision-making strategies) in public addresses and public and
private correspondence of Churchill, Hitler, Roosevelt, and
Stalin.
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:19:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
CONTENT Publication Alert . . .
Bernard, H. Russell, and Gery W. Ryan. "Text Analysis:
Qualitative and Quantitative Methods." In Handbook of
Methods in Cultural Anthropology, edited by H. Russell
Bernard, 595-642. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira, 1998.
The authors review the various text analysis traditions in
cultural anthropology, cover basic methodological issues, and
discuss options for computer-supported text analysis. A rather
lengthy reference section (15 pages) provides citations for most
of the best-known works on these topics.
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:32:22 -0500 (EST)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Bengston, David N., and David P. Fan. "An Innovative Method for
Evaluating Strategic Goals in a Public Agency: Conservation
Leadership in the U.S. Forest Service." Evaluation Review
23, no. 1 (1999): 77-100.
The authors created a computerized procedure for identifying
positive and negative comments about the U.S. Forest Service in
various news sources (newspapers, newswires, and television and
radio transcripts). The authors developed dictionaries of words
and phrases relevant to Forest Service activities in forest
stewardship, science-based management, and collaboration with
other agencies and with citizens. The Forest Service was found to
enjoy mostly favorable coverage, and the authors note that survey
data do indeed reveal that the Forest Service is generally held
in relatively high esteem by the public. The authors claim that
"analysis of on-line news media text is a way to quickly and
efficiently take the pulse of social debates and discourse
involving a wide range of stakeholders."
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 16:45:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Satoh, Shin'ichi, Yuichi Nakamura, and Takeo Kanade. "Name-It:
Naming and Detecting Faces in News Videos." IEEE Multimedia
6, no. 2 (1999): 22-35.
The authors have developed Name-It, a system designed to find and
identify faces in news videos. Name-It extracts faces from video
sequences and utilizes face similarity evaluations to help it
make connections between faces across video sequences. In
addition, Name-It utilizes on-screen captions and
closed-captioned text as it works to associate names and faces.
The authors have developed a coding scheme to identify names in
close-captioned text that likely refer to faces on screen. In
this manner, Name-It combines automated analysis of text and
image features.
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:03:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Watts, Mark D., David Domke, Dhavan V. Shah, and David P. Fan.
"Elite Cues and Media Bias in Presidential Campaigns:
Explaining Public Perceptions of a Liberal Press."
Communication Research 26, no. 2 (1999): 144-175.
The authors employ computer-supported content analysis to
determine (1) how frequently news media refer to an alleged
media bias in presidential campaigns, (2) the sources who make
such claims, and (3) whether or not news coverage is in fact
biased. Linking these data to public opinion data, the authors
report that the growing public perception of a liberal press is
predicted not by an increase in biased coverage of candidates
but rather by an increase in coverage of conservative elites
who claim that the news media are biased.
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 12:43:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Franzosi, Roberto. "Narrative as Data: Linguistic and Statistical
Tools for the Quantitative Study of Historical Events."
International Review of Social History 43, supplement
(1998): 81-104.
The author provides an overview of his "semantic grammars"
approach to content analysis in which information regarding
subject, action, object and their modifiers is extracted from
news stories and entered into a database, thereby retaining the
linguistic context of the relevant words and phrases. The author
also shows how data gathered in this manner can be analyzed with
network modeling. This article provides a glimpse of material to
be covered in the author's forthcoming book, to be published by
Cambridge University Press later this year.
Hanlein, Heike, Studies in Authorship Recognition: A
Corpus-Based Approach. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
The author argues that quantitative stylistic analysis can be
usefully supplemented with "intuitive" or qualitative approaches
grounded in the ways in which readers typically recognize authors'
styles. The author combines these approaches in her analysis of
essayists who contribute to Time magazine (e.g., Charles
Kruathammmer, Lance Morrow), offering a detailed account (the
book is 426 pages in length) of the distinguishing linguistic and
stylistic features of the newsmagazine essay.
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 16:54:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Gottschalk, Louis A. "The Application of a Computerized
Measurement of the Content Analysis of Natural Language to the
Assessment of the Effects of Psychoactive Drugs." Methods and
Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology 21, no. 2
(1999): 133-138.
The author discusses the evolution of computerized
Gottschalk-Gleser scoring of natural language and shows how
computerized Gottschalk-Gleser scoring can be used in
psychopharmacological research.
Rushing, Beth, and Idee Winfield. "Learning About Sampling and
Measurement by Doing Content Analysis of Personal
Advertisements." Teaching Sociology 27, no. 2 (1999):
159-166.
The authors discuss their experiences in teaching content
analysis in research methods courses. More specifically, the
authors describe a class project in which students create their
own sampling procedures and coding forms for the study of
personal advertisements. The authors describe students' most
common questions and concerns and provide excerpts from student
evaluations of the assignment.
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:05:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Doerfel, Marya L., and George A. Barnett. "A Semantic Network
Analysis of the International Communication Association."
Human Communication Research 25, no. 4 (1999): 589-603.
With the help of CATPAC software, the authors conducted a
semantic network analysis of paper titles presented at the 1991
annual meeting of the International Communication Association
(ICA). Also included as data were the ICA divisions and interest
groups that sponsored the presented papers. The authors identified
word clusters that were closely associated with specific ICA
divisions and interest groups (for example, the words "case,"
"study", and "public" often co-occurred in the titles of papers
presented in conference sessions sponsored by ICA's Public
Relations division). In this manner, the authors combined semantic
network analysis with analyses of organizational membership
patterns.
Stephen, Timothy. "Computer-Assisted Concept Analysis of HCR's
First 25 Years." Human Communication Research 25, no. 4
(1999): 498-513.
With the help of WORDSTAT software, the author analyzed the
titles of papers published in Human Communication Research. Word
co-occurrences were identified and then cluster analyzed,
revealing five major clusters, four of which also contained at
least two subclusters. This procedure, the author suggests, shows
how content analysis can be used in bibliometric research.
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:24:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Banerjee, Mousumi, Michelle Capozzoli, Laura McSweeney, and
Debajyoti Sinha. "Beyond Kappa: A Review of Interrater
Agreement Measures." Canadian Journal of Statistics 27, no.
1 (1999): 3-23.
The authors review and critique the most commonly used interrater
agreement measures. The authors discuss underlying statistical
assumptions, methodologies for estimating confidence intervals,
and modeling techniques (including log-linear techniques) for
interrater agreement data.
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 1999 07:45:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Foltz, Peter W., and Amber D. Wells. "Automatically Deriving
Readers' Knowledge Structures from Texts.' Behavior Research,
Instruments, & Cognition 31, no. 2 (1999): 208-214.
The authors used latent semantic analysis--which provides a model
of word co-occurrences--to identify the semantic structure of a
chapter from a psychology textbook and a group of readings on an
historical topic. The semantic structures identified in this
analysis were similar to the structures identified by readers who
were asked to rate the "relatedness" of pairs of words that
appeared in the text. The correlation between readers' models
and the latent semantic analysis was higher for readers with more
knowledge of the topic and with relatively higher reading skills.
The authors suggest that latent semantic analysis can be used for
assessing experts' knowledge structures and for predicting how
particular texts may affect readers' knowledge structures.
Hogenraad, Robert, and Dean P. McKenzie. "Replicating Text: The
Cumulation of Knowledge in Social Science." Quality &
Quantity 33, no. 2 (1999): 97-116.
The authors note that content analysts often wish to study texts
that deal with historically situated events that cannot be
replicated. To address this constraint, the authors recommend
that content analysts make use of resampling (or bootstrapping)
techniques. The authors apply resampling techniques to 82
speeches delivered by European Union presidents between 1988 and
1997. The authors apply a variety of computer-supported content
analysis techniques to these resampled data, generating reports
regarding imagery, affect, readability, and other aspects of the
speeches.
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 14:18:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Alexa, Melina, and Cornelia Zuell. A Review of Software for Text
Analysis. Mannheim: ZUMA, 1999.
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The authors review 15 software packages for qualitative and
quantitative text analysis, offering a detailed account of each
package and providing comparative assessments of relative
strengths and weaknesses. In doing so, the authors offer a useful
overview of the various approaches to text analysis manifested in
currently available software. The following software packages are
reviewed: AQUAD, ATLAS.ti, CoAn, Code-A-Text, DICTION,
DIMAP/MCCA, HyperRESEARCH, KEDS, NUD*IST, QED, TATOE, TEXTPACK,
TextSmart, WinMAXpro, and WordStat. Information regarding this
publication is available at the ZUMA web site:
http://hp-zuma.zuma-mannheim.de.
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 21:22:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Potter, W. James, and Deborah Levine-Donnerstein. Rethinking
Validity and Reliability in Content Analysis. Journal of
Applied Communication Research 27, no. 3 (1999): 258-284.
The authors argue that "validity and reliability should be
conceptualized differently across the various forms of content
and the various uses of theory" (p. 258) found in contemporary
content analysis. The authors identify three types of
content--manifest, latent pattern, and projective--that differ in
the extent to which coders are asked to apply personal
interpretive schema in coding decisions. The authors also
consider the relationship between coding protocols and theory.
The authors offer a sophisticated but nonetheless practical
critique of the most common procedures for assessing intercoder
reliability.
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 09:07:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Manning, Christopher D., and Hinrich Schutze. Foundations of
Statistical Natural Language Processing. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 1999.
More than 600 pages in length, this graduate-level textbook
reviews statistical approaches to word sense disambiguation,
sentence parsing, text clustering, text categorization, and
many other procedures common in natural language processing.
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:29:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
A double issue of the journal Dreaming features eight articles
regarding empirical analysis of dream content:
Avila-White, D., A. Schneider, and G. W. Domhoff. "The Most
Recent Dreams of 12-13 Year-old Boys and Girls: A
Methodological Contribution to the Study of Dream Content in
Teenagers." Dreaming 9, no. 2-3 (1999): 163-171.
Domhoff, G. W. "Drawing Theoretical Implications from Descriptive
Empirical Findings on Dream Content." Dreaming 9, no. 2-3
(1999): 201-210.
Domhoff, G. W. "New Directions in the Study of Dream Content
Using the Hall and Van de Castle Coding System." Dreaming 9,
no. 2-3 (1999): 115-137.
Domhoff, G. W., and A. Schneider. "Much Ado about Very Little:
The Small Effect Sizes When Home and Laboratory Collected
Dreams are Compared." Dreaming 9, no. 2-3 (1999): 139-151.
Hurovitz, C. S., S. Dunn, G. W. Domhoff, and H. Fiss. "The Dreams
of Blind Men and Women: A Replication and Extension of
Previous Findings." Dreaming 9, no. 2-3 (1999): 139-151.
Kirschner, N. T. "Medication and Dreams: Changes in Dream Content
after Drug Treatment." Dreaming 9, no. 2-3 (1999): 195-200.
Saline, S. "The Most Recent Dreams of Children Ages 8-11."
Dreaming 9, no. 2-3 (1999): 173-181.
Strauch, I., and S. Lederbogen. "The Home Dreams and Waking
Fantasies of Boys and Girls Between ages 9 and 15: A
Longitudinal Study." Dreaming 9, no. 2-3 (1999): 153-161.
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 19:18:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Hartman-Hall, Heather M., and David A. F. Haaga. "Content
Analysis of Cognitive Bias: Development of a Standardized
Measure." Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavioral
Therapy 17, no. 2 (1999): 105-114.
The authors have developed a content analysis measure of
cognitive bias in subjects' explanations of events. The measure
was applied to subjects' written explanations of both expected
and unexpected events. As predicted by previous research in
attributional processing, subjects tended to offer less rational
explanations for unexpected events than for expected events. The
authors report that their measure was found to have high internal
consistency and interrater reliability.
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:45:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Angus, Lynne, Heidi Levitt, and Karen Hardtke. "The Narrative
Processes Coding System: Research Applications and
Implications for Psychotherapy Practice." Journal of Clinical
Psychology 55, no. 10 (1999): 1255-1270.
The authors provide a theoretical and methodological overview of
their system for coding transcripts of client and therapist
interaction. The coding system aims to (1) parse transcripts into
meaningful topic segments, and then (2) determine which of three
narrative processes--internal, external, or reflexive--is
manifested in each segment.
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 15:08:58 -0500 (EST)
From: William Evans <jouwee@panther.Gsu.EDU>
To: content@sphinx.Gsu.EDU
Hagelin, Elisabet M. H. "Coding Data From Child Health Records:
The Relationship Between Interrater Agreement and
Interpretive Burden." Journal of Pediatric Nursing 14, no.
5 (1999): 310-321.
In this experimental analysis of coding procedures, the author
found a negative correlation between interrater agreement and
interpretive burden (defined as "the degree of observer
inference" required in coding). While coder training and careful
coding instructions improved interrater agreement, this
improvement was negligible in coding that was high in
interpretive burden. The author suggests that the concept of
interpretive burden is useful in designing coding protocols and
interpreting interrater agreement coefficients.
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