Corpora: MCCA Content Analysis

Ken Litkowski (ken@clres.com)
Thu, 14 May 1998 22:19:42 -0400

We are pleased to announce the availability of MCCA Lite, an
evaluation/demo version of Minnesota Contextual Content Analysis
technique. The technique, which has recently been shown to stand up
quite well in a test of techniques measuring corpus similarilty and
homogeneity (as good as, if not better than, chi-square and Spearman
rank correlation frequency analyses), has now been expanded to handle
multiperson transcripts.

The evaluation/demo version (Windows 95) includes Hamlet, which will be
loaded for analysis when you install the program and start it for the
first time. The software is suitable for other kinds of transcripts, in
addition to plays, such as focus groups, TV and news shows, hearings,
interviews, telephone hot-line interactions, and many more. From
download to results on the screen for Hamlet may take no more than 10 to
15 minutes on a modest Pentium machine.

We invite your reactions and suggestions.

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