Kvalita modelů a volba parametrů počítačové textové analýzy v programu COOA

• Authors: Václav Čepelák

Title variants

EN

MODEL EVALUATION AND PARAMETER SELECTION IN COOA COMPUTER-ASSISTED TEXT ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article examines the reliability of statistical models that use visualization of word distances using computer-assisted text analysis. This study looks at the choice of parameters in the COOA - software for word co-occurrence analysis. The word co-occurrence analysis enables visualization of text structure through the exploration of the number of co-occurrences of words. The data visualization provided by a multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) procedure is susceptible to a particular form of error. The nonlinear relationship between words with significantly different frequencies lies at the root of this problem where words with higher frequencies are placed in the middle of a two-dimensional MDS map visualization. Words with lower frequency, on the other hand, are forced by the MDS estimator to the edge of the two-dimensional map and their estimated spatial positions are unstable. These two processes are potentially a major source of error in making inferences. One solution for reducing this source of error is to (a) reduce the number of words in a model or (b) increase of the number of model dimensions. This article, however, suggests that a detailed investigation of the word structure and a thorough analysis of the error sources and their meaningful interpretation may be a better solution.

Keywords

EN

computer-assisted text analysis; multidimensional scaling; similarity measures; contextual unit; data visualisation

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Data a výzkum - SDA Info (Data and Research - SDA Info)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7-27

Contributors

author

Václav Čepelák

• Fakulta sociálních věd, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Czech Republic