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Opening up to big data: computer-assisted analysis of textual data in social sciences
Computergestützte Analyse qualitativer Daten: wie sich die qualitative Sozialforschung für Massentextanalysen öffnet
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Abstract "Two developments in computational text analysis may change the way qualitative data analysis in social sciences is performed: 1. the availability of digital text worth to investigate is growing rapidly, and 2. the improvement of algorithmic information extraction approaches, also called text mining... view more
"Two developments in computational text analysis may change the way qualitative data analysis in social sciences is performed: 1. the availability of digital text worth to investigate is growing rapidly, and 2. the improvement of algorithmic information extraction approaches, also called text mining, allows for further bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative text analysis. The key factor hereby is the inclusion of context into computational linguistic models which extends conventional computational content analysis towards the extraction of meaning. To clarify methodological differences of various computer-assisted text analysis approaches the article suggests a typology from the perspective of a qualitative researcher. This typology shows compatibilities between manual qualitative data analysis methods and computational, rather quantitative approaches for large scale mixed method text analysis designs." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
data; analysis; qualitative method; text analysis; quantitative method; method; analysis procedure; social research; discourse analysis; data processing; data quality; computer
Classification
Research Design
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Method
applied research; descriptive study; empirical; qualitative empirical
Free Keywords
text mining; computer-assisted text analysis; CAQDAS; mixed methods; corpus linguistics; lexicometrics; digital humanities; eHumanities
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 332-358
Journal
Historical Social Research, 38 (2013) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.38.2013.4.332-358
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed