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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
Apertura a datos grandes: análisis asistido por computadora de datos textuales en ciencias sociales
[journal article]

Wiedemann, Gregor

Abstract

"Zwei jüngere Entwicklungen in der computergestützten Textanalyse bieten großes Veränderungspotenzial für die sozialwissenschaftliche Analyse qualitativer Daten: Erstens nimmt die Verfügbarkeit von digitalem Textmaterial rasant zu, und zweitens tragen Verbesserungen in den Verfahren algorithmischer ... view more

"Zwei jüngere Entwicklungen in der computergestützten Textanalyse bieten großes Veränderungspotenzial für die sozialwissenschaftliche Analyse qualitativer Daten: Erstens nimmt die Verfügbarkeit von digitalem Textmaterial rasant zu, und zweitens tragen Verbesserungen in den Verfahren algorithmischer Informationsextraktion, auch Text Mining genannt, dazu bei, die Spaltung zwischen qualitativen und quantitativen Textanalysen zu überwinden. Der entscheidende Fortschritt im Gegensatz zur computergestützten quantitativen Inhaltsanalyse besteht darin, dass neuere computerlinguistische Modelle Kontextinformationen in ihre Analysen einbeziehen. Ihre Kapazitäten erweitern sich so von der Auszählung von Begriffshäufigkeiten hin zur Extraktion von Bedeutung. Der Artikel stellt verschiedene Ansätze computergestützter Textanalysen vor und führt eine Typologie aus der Sicht qualitativer Sozialforschung ein, um methodologische Unterschiede zu verdeutlichen. Diese Typologie zeigt: Je besser die algorithmischen Verfahren in der Lage sind, komplexere semantische Strukturen über die Ebene einzelner Worte hinaus zu identifizieren, umso produktiver können sie mit manuellen Ansätzen qualitativer Datenanalyse in einem Mixed-Method-Forschungsdesign zur Analyse sehr großer Textmengen integriert werden." (Autorenreferat)... view less


"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
computer-mediated communication; data organization; data preparation; data quality; data documentation; context analysis; data acquisition; data; method; typology; research approach; data processing; text analysis

Classification
Methods and Techniques of Data Collection and Data Analysis, Statistical Methods, Computer Methods
Research Design

Method
qualitative empirical; applied research; descriptive study; empirical

Document language
English

Publication Year
2013

Page/Pages
24 p.

Journal
Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 14 (2013) 2

ISSN
1438-5627

Status
Published Version; peer reviewed

Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution


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