From Words to Numbers: A Generalized and Linguistics-Based Coding Procedure for Collecting Textual Data

Roberto Franzosi · Sociological Methodology · 1989

Summary

A grammar of data collection from the simple linguistic canonical structure noun phraselverb phrase, namely, subjectlactionlobject and their modifiers is developed, which allows researchers to collect richer and more flexible data than more traditional coding schemes.

Type: article
Published: 1989-01-01
Cited by: 92
References: 19
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/270955
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Keywords

Natural language processing, Coding (social sciences), Computer science, Linguistics, Quantitative linguistics

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