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Diction 5.0
By Ben Giffordand Terri Johnson
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About the creators
Diction was created by the Dean of the College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin, Roderick P. Hart--he is very focused on political communication. He's "passionate about many things, but especially about his family and basketball." and
Craig Carroll, associate professor and department chair of Communication and Journalism at Lipscomb University
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Features
• Examines text for 5 main semantic features:o Activityo Optimismo Certaintyo Realismo Commonality
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FeaturesIt also has built-in dictionaries for numerical terms, ambivalence, self-referencing, tenacity, leveling terms, collectives, praise, satisfaction, inspiration, blame, hardship, aggression, accomplishment, communication, cognition, passivity, spatial terms familiarity, temporal terms, present concerns, human interest, concreteness, past concern, centrality, rapport, cooperation, diversity, exclusion, liberation, denial, and motion
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Features
• Reports an average frequency and whether the variable falls within a standard range.
• Diction can analyzeo the first 500 words of a given passageo up to 500,000 words in 500 word units averaged togethero any passage up to 5,000 words in length (500-word units)o Units smaller than 500 words
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Comparing Bill Clinton and Barack Obama
• Make sure you have some text (.txt file)
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Create a new project fileFile > New or Ctrl +N
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Add the text filesEdit > Add File(s) or InsertThen navigate to your .txt files and open them
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Check the properties
Go to File->Properties.This is especially important if you want to use SPSS
In the processing tab, check under Large File Options. “Averaged” is probably your best bet.
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Properties continuedGive the output file a unique name. Under “Numeric Filename” highlight the text immediately before “.num” and replace it with a chosen name.
*Note: this is different from saving the entire project. When you save a project, this file is created and saved separately and can be used in SPSS
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Choose Norms Profile• Diction notes when text falls outside of a normal range based
on previous content analyseso The default for this a "single normative profile"o Can tailor to more specific needs
Public speeches Poetry Newspaper Editorials Music lyrics etc.
• It's simple to change the profile
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Choose Norms Profile Cont.• Go to View ->Normative Values• To choose a more specific set of norms, make a general
selection under Class, and then a more specific selection under Type.
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Choose Norms Profile Cont.• Some normative values are "better" than others.• Searching for "Normative Values" under help-> help topics
will bring up a list of all the different profiles.
e.g. the creatorssampled 2,357campaignspeeches, but only 78 poetryand verse samples
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Process your filesProcessing-> All Files (Ctrl+Shift+G)or Selected Files (Ctrl+G)
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You may have to add new wordsto the insistence score
More on that soon,but just go ahead and hit “yes”(there’s really no reason not to)
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Viewing output
Output forone file
Abridged outputFor all files.
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Clinton ResultsIt’s possible to look at some raw results. This presentation will touch on some of the variables. A full list is available in the manual.
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Clinton Results
Interesting, but probably not statistically significant or practical.
Diction brings up a count of all words that appear three or more times (in a 500-word passage) called “Insistence Score”
Looks for nouns, noun-derived objects, or words that can be used as both a verb and a noun/noun-derived object
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Clinton Results
Calculated VariablesInsistence - repetition of key termsEmbellishment - Ratio of adj. to verbsVariety - Different words/total wordsComplexity - Avg. # of chars. per word
Master VariablesThese scores use built-in dictionaries(See next slide)
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Clinton ResultsActivity: Language featuring movement, change, the implementation of ideas and the avoidance of inertia.ex. formula: [Aggression + Accomplishment + Communication + Motion] - [Cognitive Terms + Passivity + Embellishment]
Optimism: Language endorsing some person, group, concept or event or highlighting their positive entailments.
Certainty: Language indicating resoluteness, inflexibility, and completeness and a tendency to speak ex cathedra (authority from office/position)
Realism: Language describing tangible, immediate, recognizable matters that affect people’s everyday lives
Commonality: Language highlighting the agreed -upon values of a group and rejecting idiosyncratic modes of engagement.
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Clinton Results
Diction flags any of these variables that it deems "out of range"
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When you’re ready to use SPSS…
Find where your .num file went. Copy it (Ctrl+C)
Save first (File -> Save, Ctrl + s). This creates the .num file
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Move some stuff aroundCreate folders in C:\ called “RAWDATA” and “spssdata” if they aren’t there already. Go to C:\RAWDATA. Paste your .num file (Ctrl+V). Right-click it and click “rename.” Rename it “mystudy.dat”Click “Yes”
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Open SPSSGet to the default blank view.Go to File->Open->Syntax…Navigate to C:\Program Files\Diction\Stats\
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Open ‘SPSS-DIC.SPS’This file is a pain… no really. Open it, you’ll see.
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You need to make this…
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Look like something like this
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Consult the Diction manual
Go to page 54 (of the Diction 4.0 manual) and look at Figure 28.
You need to make SPSS-DIC.SPS look somewhat like that file. The most important part is that each word in all CAPS is on its own line.
Figure out where there is a line break at hit “enter” at each one.
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After that long and tedious process
Run the syntax. Cross fingers. Pray.
This must match up with the .dat file you created
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If it worked
You should have an SPPS sheet filled with data
From here, the sky is the limit
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For example
A simple means comparison shows Clinton was much more ambivalent in the speeches
sampled
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Though the results are not significant
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WordStat
By Ben Gifford and Terri Johnson
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Craig Stovall JetBlue Airlines
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To obtain a free trial of WordStat
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About WordStat
• Content analysis module of SimStat• Analyzes textual information
o open-ended responseso interview transcriptso journal articleso websites
• Can be used for automatic categorization of text• Can be used for manual coding• Facilitates the development of new dictionaries
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Features• Integrated text-mining analysis• Visualization tools• Hierarchical categorization dictionary• User-generated dictionary• Keyword-in-context (KWIC) retrieval tools• Statistical analysis capabilities
o factor analysiso word frequencies
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To Create Dictionary
Go to My Computer ...C drive...Program Files...Provalis Research...Dictionary...Copy Existing CAT file...Rename to ______.cat...Right click new cat file...Open with notepad ("choose program" if notepad is nonexistent)
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Create dictionary using correct formatting: Category flush left, word tabbed in with " (1)" after (space is important). Everything single-space.<--Category
<--Words
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Dictionary needs fixing
Dictionary results
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To Open WordStat ...Go to CATA...Provalis Research...Simstat...Simstat for Windows
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Go to File>Data>New
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You'll get a screen that looks like this:
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Create Variables...1) Person (integer) tab to add additional variables...2) Speech (memo)
(text files will always be memo variables)
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A Content Analysis on Speeches by Clinton and Obama
Step #1-Enter data• In this case, enter "1" for a speech by Obama, "2" for a Clinton speech.• Copy/paste the text into the window below when the appropriate "memo" column is
highlighted.• To add another line, hit "tab" while in the right-most column.
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A Content Analysis on Speeches by Clinton and Obama
Step #2 -Select the variables• Execute the STATISTICS...CHOOSE X-Y command
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• Move the PERSON variable to the INDEPENDENT• Move the SPEECH variable to the DEPENDENT• Press the OK button
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A Content Analysis on Speeches by Clinton and Obama
Step # 3- Run the content analysis module• Execute STATISTICS...CONTENT ANALYSIS
Step # 4- Choose the proper dictionaries (for Inclusion)
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Speeches by Clinton and Obama
Step # 5- View the results• Click different tabs (word count and crosstabs)• Click that button
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Clinton and Obama SpeechesMore Results
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THE END...
(or should we say this is just the beginning)