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Text Mining for Qualitative Data Analysis in the Social Sciences

A Study on Democratic Discourse in Germany

Authors:

  1. Gregor Wiedemann

    1. Department of Computer Science, Leipzig University Department of Computer Science, Leipzig, Germany

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  • Study in the field of social sciences

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Kritische Studien zur Demokratie (KSTD)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVII
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  8. Back Matter

    Pages 261-294
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About this book

Gregor Wiedemann evaluates text mining applications for social science studies with respect to conceptual integration of consciously selected methods, systematic optimization of algorithms and workflows, and methodological reflections relating to empirical research. In an exemplary study, he introduces workflows to analyze a corpus of around 600,000 newspaper articles on the subject of “democratic demarcation” in Germany. He provides a valuable resource for innovative measures to social scientists and computer scientists in the field of applied natural language processing. 
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Keywords

  • Big Data
  • Qualitative Text Analyses
  • Workflows
  • Modeling Semantics
  • Text Qualification
  • democracy
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, Leipzig University Department of Computer Science, Leipzig, Germany

    Gregor Wiedemann

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About the author

Gregor Wiedemann holds a doctoral degree from Leipzig University, Germany. He is the coordinator of the discipline-specific working groups in the CLARIN-D project, which develops a European virtual research infrastructure for digital language data analysis in the social sciences and humanities.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Text Mining for Qualitative Data Analysis in the Social Sciences

  • Book Subtitle: A Study on Democratic Discourse in Germany

  • Authors: Gregor Wiedemann

  • Series Title: Kritische Studien zur Demokratie

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-15309-0

  • Publisher: Springer VS Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-15308-3Published: 02 September 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-15309-0Published: 23 August 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2567-062X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2567-0743

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 294

  • Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociological Methods, Political Science

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eBook USD 54.99
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Softcover Book USD 69.99
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