DICTION Computer Program

Principal Investigator(s): North, Robert; Lagerstrom, Richard; Mitchell, William

Summary: This data collection contains the DICTION program, a multi-option, high-speed, content-analysis program that retrieves cognitive, affective, and decisional data from speeches, documents, or archival materials. This computer analysis of textual themes by cluster-analysis technique is designed for use with Robert North et al., BRITISH SPEECHES, 1870-1914, AND GERMAN SPEECHES, 1871-1912 (ICPSR 5902). DICTION is used to produce word-frequency dictionaries, to substitute equivalent words into and del... (more info)

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North, Robert, Richard Lagerstrom, and William Mitchell. DICTION Computer Program. ICPSR05909-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. doi:10.3886/ICPSR05909.v1

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR05909.v1

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This survey was funded by:

University of Michigan. Voluntary International Coordination Project (Contract F30602-70-C-0016)
United States Department of Defense. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Summary: This data collection contains the DICTION program, a multi-option, high-speed, content-analysis program that retrieves cognitive, affective, and decisional data from speeches, documents, or archival materials. This computer analysis of textual themes by cluster-analysis technique is designed for use with Robert North et al., BRITISH SPEECHES, 1870-1914, AND GERMAN SPEECHES, 1871-1912 (ICPSR 5902). DICTION is used to produce word-frequency dictionaries, to substitute equivalent words into and delete unwanted words from the text, and to count the co-occurrences of pairs of specified keywords in text input. DICTION also includes routines to delete common English suffixes from text words. It is written in Fortran IV for use with the IBM H Compiler (OPT = 2).

Subject Terms: computer programs, instructional materials

Data Types: program source code

Original ICPSR Release: 1984-07-02

1969

Holsti, Ole R. Content Analysis for the Social Sciences and Humanities. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

1968

Johnson, Stephen C. How to Use HICLUS: Hierarchical Cluster Analysis Program. Murray HIll, NJ: Bell Telephone Laboratories.

1971

Mitchell, William C., et al . What Does an Integrated Database Have to Do with British Foreign Policy from 1870 to 1914?. Western Political Science Association Meeting. Albuquerque, NM.

1967

Parker, Edwin B., Paisley, William J., Garrett, Roger Lee . Bibliographic Citations as Unobtrusive Measures of Scientific Communication. Stanford, CA: Stanford University, Institute for Communication Research.

1969

Roberts, Donald F., Sikorski, L.A., Paisley, William J. Letters in Mass Magazines as 'Outcroppings' of Public Concern. Journalism Quarterly. 46, (4), 743-752.

1966

Stone, Philip J. The General Inquirer: A Computer Approach to Content Analysis. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

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