Text Mining For Qualitative Data Analysis In The Social Sciences

Download or read book Text Mining for Qualitative Data Analysis in the Social Sciences written by Gregor Wiedemann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregor Wiedemann evaluates text mining applications for social science studies with respect to conceptual integration of consciously selected methods, systematic optimization of algorithms and workflows, and methodological reflections relating to empirical research. In an exemplary study, he introduces workflows to analyze a corpus of around 600,000 newspaper articles on the subject of “democratic demarcation” in Germany. He provides a valuable resource for innovative measures to social scientists and computer scientists in the field of applied natural language processing.