Re: Sociological Data Analysis with Emacs?

[thorne <thorne@timbral.net>]

Sven Bretfeld <sven.bretfeld@relwi.unibe.ch> writes:

> 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?

Er, no.  Sorry, but i am wondering, it sounds like what you are
describing is a species of indexing tool.  Is that a fair
characterization?

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