Comments on: Lexical Analysis of Presidential Debates and the Windbag Index http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/23/lexical-analysis-of-presidential-debates-and-the-windbag-index/ Strength in Numbers Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:48:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ::: Think Macro ::: » Reading blogs #3 http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/23/lexical-analysis-of-presidential-debates-and-the-windbag-index/#comment-17030 ::: Think Macro ::: » Reading blogs #3 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:41:33 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=1085#comment-17030 [...] tool as it seems really interesting.  And speaking about interesting textual analysis, here is another one from “Flowing Data” blog - a lexical analysis of the presidential debates in the US.  [...] [...] tool as it seems really interesting.  And speaking about interesting textual analysis, here is another one from “Flowing Data” blog – a lexical analysis of the presidential debates in the US.  [...]

]]> By: Kevin Carlson http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/23/lexical-analysis-of-presidential-debates-and-the-windbag-index/#comment-16636 Kevin Carlson Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:54:52 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=1085#comment-16636 Has the accuracy of Coh-Metrix been independently verified? Also, it might be helpful to analyze extemporaneous speech in order to get an accurate representation of individuals, instead of their speech writers... ;) Has the accuracy of Coh-Metrix been independently verified?
Also, it might be helpful to analyze extemporaneous speech in order to get an accurate representation of individuals, instead of their speech writers… ;)

]]> By: Nathan Yau http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/23/lexical-analysis-of-presidential-debates-and-the-windbag-index/#comment-16621 Nathan Yau Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:02:07 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=1085#comment-16621 @Martin - much better :). I must have missed this in your report, but what did you use to annotate the text with part of speech? @Martin – much better :). I must have missed this in your report, but what did you use to annotate the text with part of speech?

]]> By: Martin Krzywinski http://flowingdata.com/2008/10/23/lexical-analysis-of-presidential-debates-and-the-windbag-index/#comment-16572 Martin Krzywinski Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:50:32 +0000 http://flowingdata.com/?p=1085#comment-16572 The analysis was completely automatic. The only manual intervention was removal of transcriptionist's marks from the transcript. And of course it was not a plug for Obama. In order for it to be considered a plug, there'd have to be another choice. And - there is no other choice. So it's not a plug. Right. The analysis was completely automatic. The only manual intervention was removal of transcriptionist’s marks from the transcript.

And of course it was not a plug for Obama. In order for it to be considered a plug, there’d have to be another choice. And – there is no other choice. So it’s not a plug. Right.

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