[Air-L] content analysis software?

[Mercea, Dan]

Simon Lindgren et al.'s Textometrica might be worth checking out but the data requires some prepping prior to analysis: http://www.humlab.umu.se/en/research-development/textometrica/ 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Nikos [mailto:smyrnaios at hotmail.com] 
Sent: 28 November 2013 12:58
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] content analysis software?

Hi Stefania, 

you can try http://www.iramuteq.org/ which is a free software of lexicometric analysis made by Pierre Ratinaud. The website is in French but the software handles english.

Best

Nikos

> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 07:51:32 -0500
> From: stefania.milan at utoronto.ca
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> CC: p.j.m.koene at tilburguniversity.edu
> Subject: [Air-L] content analysis software?
> 
> Hi everyone
> 
> A student of mine (who for some reason has not been able to subscribe 
> to this list) is looking for a (possibly open source) software to do 
> content analysis of newspaper articles from an online database. She is 
> also looking at the trail version of WordStat, and is curious to know 
> whether anyone can recommend it. See her email below (to speed things 
> up, I agree to post her request for her. Please reply to Puck directly 
> (p.j.m.koene at tilburguniversity.edu)).
> Thanks for any suggestions and advice you might want to share with us 
> Stefania Milan
> ----
>  From Puck Koene [p.j.m.koene at tilburguniversity.edu]
> Hey everyone,
> 
> In order to graduate I am currently writing my master thesis. The plan 
> is to examine thousands of news articles extracted from an online 
> database. However, so far I have no knowledge of any good software to 
> automate this process. I was hoping y?all could help me answer the 
> question as to whether you know any software to do proper content 
> analysis. Does any of you by any chance have experience with WordStat?
> I'm particularly interested in the trial version as I need to be able 
> to have access to the results of my analysis after the trail version 
> has expired. The software I?m looking for needs to be able to detect 
> types of sources used by journalists and add them together, so 
> basically I need the software to look for certain key words. If you 
> know any good software (especially free software or trial versions) to 
> run a proper content analysis I would love to hear from you. Thank you 
> in advance.
> 
> Best,
> Puck Koene, Student Communication and Information Sciences Tilburg 
> University (Netherlands) p.j.m.koene at tilburguniversity.edu
> 
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