Computer-Assisted Text Analysis

Informationen zum Autor Roel Popping taught statistics and methodology courses including text analysis at the Department of Sociology at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, until his retirement. His research interests included methodology, with a specialty in the study of agreement and in text analysis, its application in research on historical shifts in public opinion and values, primarily within the context of post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe, in decision-making of negotiation processes and in integrating scientific knowledge. Klappentext Providing an up-to-date picture of the main methods for the quantitative analysis of text, this book overviews the background and the conceptual foundations of the field, and covers the traditional thematic approaches of text analysis, followed by an explanation of newer developments in semantic and network text analysis methodologies. Zusammenfassung Providing an up-to-date picture of the main methods for the quantitative analysis of text! this book overviews the background and the conceptual foundations of the field! and covers the traditional thematic approaches of text analysis! followed by an explanation of newer developments in semantic and network text analysis methodologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Text Analysis What and Why? Further Conceptual Foundations Recent Approaches to Quantitative Text Analysis Thematic Text Analysis Semantic Text Analysis Network Text Analysis Sampling, Reliability and Validity Relation to Qualitative Research Relation to Linguistics and Information Retrieval

List of contents

Text Analysis
What and Why?
Further Conceptual Foundations
Recent Approaches to Quantitative Text Analysis
Thematic Text Analysis
Semantic Text Analysis
Network Text Analysis
Sampling, Reliability and Validity
Relation to Qualitative Research
Relation to Linguistics and Information Retrieval

Product details

• Authors: Roel Poppin, Roel Popping, Popping Roel
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.2000
• EAN: 9780761953791
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5379-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: New Technologies for Social Research Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Social research & statistics, Social research and statistics, COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Visualization, COMPUTERS / Database Administration & Management, Data capture and analysis, Data Capture & Analysis