Example Text Files

In the TEXTPACK subfolder DEMO you will find example files for use with TEXTPACK. The examples include SENTENCE and SPLIT files, a dictionary to try coding or KeyWord In Context, STOP word files and the original texts.

• Example texts "Presidential Debates"
  The texts are transcripts of the televised debates held on October 11, 1992 in St.Louis, Missouri. The candidates for president participating in the debate are Bill Clinton, George Bush, and Ross Perot.
  The texts were transcribed by Net.Capitol Inc. Face-to-face presidential debates in the 20th century began their broadcast history in 1948 when Republicans Thomas Dewey and Harold Stassen faced each other in a radio debate during the Oregon Republican presidential primary. The text has been prepared for TEXTPACK. It contains one identification (ID1) which is a speech unit number (first characters of ID1) and the speaker ID (last character of ID1). The speakers are:
  Moderator Jim Lehrer (1), Bill Clinton (2), Ross Perot (3), George Bush (4), Journalists (5, Three journalists were asking questions. They are John Mashek of The Boston Globe, Ann Compton of ABC News, and Sander Vanocur, a freelance journalist. For this example they are not distinguished, all are coded with 5).
  You find as an example included with TEXTPACK the input text file (debate.txt), the SENTENCE file (debate.sen) and the SPLIT file (debate.spl). The SPLIT file is reduced by a STOP word list (debate.stp). Additionally, the folder contains a small dictionary (debate.dic) with some categories to code social groups like young people, families, rich people, the American people etc.

• Example texts "Party Platforms"
  A second example includes two different texts: the party platform from 1996 of two American parties - of the Democrats and of the Republicans.
  The texts are available as SENTENCE (democrat.sen, republic.sen) and SPLIT files (democrat.spl, republic.spl). The only identification is the sentence number (ID1). The SPLIT files are reduces by a STOP word list (parties.stp).