I and Ken Benoit will convene a half-day workshop at European Symposium Series on Societal Challenges in Computational Social Science in November. We will explain how quanteda can be allied to different types of textual data in dictionary-based analysis. The material for the workshop contains the most updated examples.
Applying LIWC dictionary to a large dataset
LIWC is a popular text analysis package developed and maintained by Pennebaker et al. The latest version of the LIWC dictionary was released in 2015. This dictionary seems more appropriate than classic dictionaries such as the General Inquire dictionaries for analysis of contemporary materials, because our vocabulary changes over years. However, LIWC did not work […]