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MONDAY NOON WITH CHPR:  Mar 5, 2007

A Monthly Colloquium Series

 

TITLE:  Measuring What People Say: New Perspectives on Language Analysis

DATE:  Mar 5, 2007

TIME:  12 PM - 1 PM

LOCATION:  NUR 2.104F, 1700 Red River Street

SPEAKER:

James Pennebaker PhD, Barbara P. Bush Regents, Professor Department of Psychology The University of Texas at Austin Homepage: http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/Home2000/JWPhome.htm Email: pennebaker@mail.utexas.edu

ABSTRACT:

Researchers in nursing and the social sciences want to know what people think.  Instead of asking them, we usually rely on questionnaires.  In fact, recent advances in computational linguistics and computer text analysis can change this.  There are now some automated ways to analyze open-ended responses to questionnaires or interviews.  Several examples of simple language analysis strategies will be presented.

PRESENTATION FILE (PowerPoint)