Text Analysis Info - all on text analysis software

Text Analysis Info is a free information source for information that deals with the analysis of content of human communication, mostly but not limited to text. Several programs support the coding of different sources of human communication like audio, video, or chatroom files.

Call for papers

for the session on computer aided text analysis of the Research Committee 33 (Logic and Methdodology in Sociology) of the ISA (International Sociological Association). These papers can describe projects and/or results that use these techniques, or can discuss methodological problems of the field. Contributions from a academic and commercial are both welcome. An abstract up to 250 words is required, it must contain your name, your email address, your institutional affiliation and up to three keywords.

Deadline for the abstract: February 17, 2008

The conference takes place in Naples, Italy, from September 1-5, 2008, at the University "Federico II" on the campus Monte Sant'Angelo. Monday afternoon and Friday morning will be devoted to tutorials.

More information at the conference web site

If you have questions on the session or the conference, do not hesitate to ask.

Contact: Harald.Klein (at) uni-osnabrueck.de

News

January, 31st, 2008 : T-LAB Pro 5.5 was released.
Co-Word Analysis and Concept Mapping, one of main tools for co-occurrence analysis, has been completely renewed: new options, new measures and new outputs are available:

some tools for comparative analysis, like Specificity Analysis and Correspondence Analysis, work in a more ergonomic way
the Dictionary Building tool includes new options (e.g. the possibility to check the contexts of different items and to export a lemmatised version of the corpus)
the language selection, both of the user’s interface and of texts to be processed, has been updated
all output tables of T-LAB analyses can be saved and exported in .HTML and .XLS format.

All new features can be read here...

October, 12th, 2007 : Provalis Research released version 3.0 of QDA-Miner that can now also analyse graphics, images and photos. A very useful feature is the import of QSR N6 and HyperResearch project files as well as Transana and Transcriber XML file formats. More...

September, 5th, 2007 : T-LAB Pro 5.4 was released. The monolingual version is not available any more, the new version has a user interface in English, French, Spanish, and Italian. The other changes can be viewed here...

June, 15th, 2007 : ResearchWare released the new version of HyperResearch: 2.8 for MS-Windows and MacOS. A special ofer contains HyperResearch and HyperTranscribe. The enhancements of HyperResearch can be viewed here...

July, 8th, 2007 : TextQuest 3.0 is now available as a free test version. Two modules were added: a vocabulary comparison module that allows e.g. the comparison of 5 word lists, and a category manager for the creation and maintenance of category systems. More...

November, 30th, 2006 : ResearchWare released the new version of HyperResearch: 2.7 for MS-Windows and MacOS. There are many changes and enhancements to the older version. More...

September, 6th, 2006 : T-LAB Pro 5.2 was released. New: multiple correspondence analysis with up to 15,000 text units, 50 variables and 250 category labels, and 1500 key-words. Other relevant features are the text and context clustering and the sequence analysis. More...

June, 18th, 2006 : The conference of the ICA (International Communication Association) takes places in Dresden, Germany, starting June, 19th, for 3 days. Social Science Consulting will demonstrate text analysis software like TextQuest, TextGrab, WordStat, and the new version of QDA-Miner.

May, 28th, 2006 : The sections QDA-software, audio/video and transcription were extended describing the ANVIL software of Michael Kipp, DFKI, Germany. The software is free and runs on different operating systems.

May, 23th, 2006 : Provalis Research released a new version of WordStat, the newest version now is 5.1.

March, 25th, 2006 : Phlip J. Stone, developer of the General/New Inquirer, died at the age of 69. The scientific community lost one of their pioneers in computer aided content analysis.

March, 23th, 2006 : The website of Textquest http://www.textquest.de is online again. More...

February, 10th, 2006 : The website of Textquest http://www.textquest.de is currently offline due to a move to a new provider. More...

June, 30th, 2005 : Provalis Research, Montreal, Canada, released a new version of its text analysis software WordStat 5.0. It may be used for automatic categorisation of text using a dictionary approach or various text mining as well as for manual coding. New features e.g. are lemmatisation/stemming and disambiguation rules using Boolean and proximity operators. More...

May, 24th, 2005 : A new version of MAXqda2 is released. The free demo version is a complete version of MAXqda2 with a 30 day time limit; it includes the add-on module for content analysis, MAXdictio.
MAXqda2 provides 37 major & minor enhancements and improvements, including some new possibilities for visual analysis, e.g. the code-matrix-browser and the code-relations-browser.

February, 16th, 2005 : A comparison of SAS Text Miner and WordStat is published in The American Statistician 2005, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 89-103:
"Both packages offer a variety of features that effectively help researchers run associations and present results. However, in extracting themes from unstructured data, both packages were only marginally helpful. The researcher still needs to read the data and make all the difficult decisions."

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