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Classification of Text Analysis Software

Definitions and terms
transcribing software (audio/video)
Language:
linguistics
information retrieval
Content:
event data
qualitative
     qualitative - general
     qualitative - audio/video
quantitative
     with category system (built-in and/or self constructed)
     without category system
     coding responses to open ended questions
text summarisation

Category systems

General category systems

Regressive Imagery Dictionary (Martindale)
LIWC categories (Pennebaker)
MCCA categories (McTavish, Litkowski)
Value categories (Lasswell)
Harvard IV (Stone)

Specific category systems

DICTION categories (Hart)
Gottschalk-Gleser anxiety scales
Wordnet (Fellbaum, Miller, Tengi, Wakefield)
Hamburger kommunikationssoziologisches Wörterbuch (Deichsel)
Dresdner Angstwörterbuch (Berth)
Nachrichtenfaktoren (Klein)
Heirats- und Kontaktanzeigen (Giegler, Klein)

Utilities for the processing of textual data