From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "dsoliver@earthlink.net" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sociological Data Analysis with Emacs? Date: 19 Feb 2007 09:52:11 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1171907531.932870.6850@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171910441 9173 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2007 18:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 19 19:40:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HJDRB-0003I7-EC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:40:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJDRA-0000yT-Ve for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 13:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.180.52.44 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1171907553 7223 127.0.0.1 (19 Feb 2007 17:52:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:52:33 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061220 Firefox/2.0.0.1 (Dropline GNOME),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.180.52.44; posting-account=Mu7y7gwAAAADJ71fYmB0mt2IqYzXiLJh Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:145714 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41319 Archived-At: > > The main function of a QDA tool is to markup and query a set of texts, > say, interviews with people who, for example, recently converted from > Christianity to a different religious community. These interviews may > contain a variety of similar statements that can be "coded" by the > researcher who marks the relevant passages and gives them keywords > like: experience, spirit, power, charisma and so on. A query in this > database should for example count all the passages where, for example, > "experience" occurs together with "charisma" and display a list of > hits that functions as links to the original passages. > > Does anybody know about such a package? > > Best wishes, > Sven Dear Sven, In the early 90's when I was at the University of California, Santa Barbara doing Ph.D. research in Discourse Functional Linguistics, we used the DOS program Paradox (I think that was its name) to do similar analyses. Although I could not do this myself, it seems to me that one could write an elisp or a lisp program that would use some combination of grep, sed, awk to accomplish what you want. At UCSB we would transcribe spoken data. Each line of text would be one intonation unit. Each one of those would be further marked up for any number of things like part of speech, emotion, emphasis, new or old topic, etc. Paradox would keep the original transcribed text intact while creating sub files containing the mark up data. XML didn't really exist at the time, but now seems to be a good mark up solution. I personally now use Linux, so I usually don't consider DOS and Windows programs anymore. I haven't looked, but there might be something at gnu.org that could work and work with emacs. Good luck--Douglas