Filter Interview Transcripts for Descriptions of Subjective Experience
This recipe uses a speech tagger, frequency lists and concordance to explore descriptive terms applied to subjective experience.
This recipe and exercise will soon be available as a PDF download.Ingredients
- A collection of electronic texts by a writer whose changing use of language you wish to explore
- An Aggregation Tool such as TAPoR Googlizer
- A Collocation tool such as the TAPoR Find Collocates Tool
- A Concordance tool such as the TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool
- A List Words tool such as the TAPoR List Words Tool
- A Thesaurus Tool such as Eva at POETS
This recipe needs a good exercise to demonstrate how to Filter Interview Transcripts for Descriptions of Subjective Experience?.Steps
For this process, you need interview transcripts or other files containing first-person reports of subjective experience, and 2 tools. Here are the steps: 1. Run a Part of Speech Tagger against the transcripts to get an XML file http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/ucrel/claws/trial.html 2. Manually scan the results for accuracy 3. Run a Tag and Word Frequency tool on the XML file to get tags and words listed by frequency 4. Manually review the results for patterns that are worth further investigation -- StanRuecker - 20 May 2005- Login to the TAPoR portal;
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- Build an aggregated text of the writers oeuvres, either by obtaining electronic versions from a sources such as [[][]] or by using the TAPoR Googlizer
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- Generate a frequency list from the aggregated text using TAPoR List Words Tool to find interesting words;
- Choose select vocabulary to explore from the word list;
- Use a thesaurus tool such as Eva at POETS to find related words to those drawn from the frequency list; may help to identify your topic ;
- Apply a Collocation tool such as TAPoR Find Collocates Tool to each of the keywords to select the related vocabulary;
- Explore the results of your collocation for other fixed phrases of interest that don’t involve your keywords;
- Use a concordance such as TAPoR Find Words - Concordance Tool to locate other instances of those or related phrases;
- Go back to scour the original documents armed with keywords, related words, and related fixed phrases
Discussion
Why Login
When using an aggregation tool such as the Googlizer, you must be able to save text to the Databench as part of the process. To make this possible you must be logged into the system to maintain your own personal workspace. If you require access to TAPoR please visit the TAPoR signup page.Why Use the Thesaurus
After finding the list of words from the writers work, it is useful to use the thesaurus tool to find related words that you can use to explore further nuances of the writers’ changing use of language. The key words that you identify as points of exploration themselves mat have evolved themselves and the subtle changes in word choice can be identified through contrasting synonyms.Glossary
- Googlizer
- The Googlizer queries the Google search engine using a word or phrase you provide and returns the results of the Google search.
Next Steps/Further Information
- List of All Recipes
- Exercise 27 Filter Interview Transcripts for Descriptions of Subjective Experience?
- Help with Particular Tools
- Background on Text Analysis
- Information about the TAPoR Collocation Tool
- Information about the TAPoR Concordance Tool
- Information about the TAPoR Googlizer Tool
- Information about the TAPoR List Words Tool