Computer-Assisted Text Analysis

Providing an up-to-date picture of the main methods for the quantitative analysis of text, this book begins by overviewing the background and the conceptual foundations of the field. The author then covers the traditional thematic approaches of text analysis, followed by an explanation of newer developments in semantic and network text analysis methodologies. Finally, he examines the relationship between content analysis and other kinds of text analysis - from qualitative research, linguistic analysis and information retrieval.

Computer-assisted Text Analysis focuses on the methodological and practical issues of coding and handling data, including sampling, reliability and validity issues, and includes a useful appendix of computer programs for text analysis.

Sommario

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

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Roel Poppin, R. Popping, Roel Popping, Popping Roel
• Editore: Sage Publications Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 13.01.2000
• EAN: 9780761953784
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5378-4
• Pagine: 240
• Serie: New Technologies for Social Re; New Technologies for Social Research Series; New Technologies for Social Re; New Technologies for Social Research Series
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Matematica > Teoria delle probabilità, stocastica, statistica matematica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; 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