Transcript Yoshikoder & PCAD 2000 Michael Summers Johnny Sams Yoshikoder Basics • Free open source content analysis software – developed as part of the Identity.

Yoshikoder & PCAD 2000
Michael Summers
Johnny Sams
Yoshikoder
Basics
• Free open source content analysis software
– developed as part of the Identity Project at
Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International
Affairs
• Multilingual
• Works with documents in .txt form
– ASCII, Unicode (e.g. UTF-8), or national
encodings (e.g. Big5 Chinese).
• http://www.yoshikoder.org
Interface
• Simplistic
interface
• Four page
instruction
book, so
learn by
doing
Dictionaries
• Can import from LIWC &
others.
• Can also make your
own.
• Recognizes wildcards
Options: Concordance
• When making your
own dictionary, can
run a concordance
on the selected txt
and check your
entries
Options: Report/Compare
• Can report on:
– Total word
frequency
– Frequency only of
dictionary words
– Will also ‘compare’
documents
• Reports can be
exported into
Excel
Comparison of three Tarantino
movie scripts: Reservoir Dogs,
Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown
Total Curses
300
30
250
25
200
20
Dogs
15
150
Jackie
Total Curses
Pulp
10
100
5
50
0
0
Dogs
Jackie
Pulp
hate
hit
kill
murder
shoot
stab
PCAD 2000
(Psychiatric Content Analysis
& Diagnosis)
Speech analysis software designed to
test for a range of psychological
variables and alert psychological
professionals to signs of a variety of
clinical mental illnesses (as outlined in
the DSM-IV professional manual).
Pioneered by Louis A. Gottschalk, M.D., Ph.D.
Analyzes Text Across Several Scales
What Do These Scales Mean?
Anxiety Scale - Consists of six subscales:
- Death: Fear of death and/or destruction
- Mutilation: Physical injury
- Separation: Abandonment, ostracism, loss of support, loss of love
- Guilt: Adverse criticism, abuse, condemnation, moral disapproval
- Shame: Ridicule, inadequacy, embarrassment, exposure of
shortcomings, exposure of details of a person’s private life
- Diffuse/Non-specific: Unidentified
Hostility Scale - Consists of three subscales:
- Hostility Directed Outward: Adversely critical, angry, assaultive,
asocial impulses and drives towards objects outside oneself
- Hostility Directed Inward: Self-hate, self-criticisms, anxious
depression, masochism
- Ambivalent Hostility: Destructive and critical thoughts or actions of
others to the self…Also measures some inward and outward hostility
Social Alienation-Personal Disorganization Scale:
Disturbances in coherence and logicality of thought processes,
withdrawal, avoidance, antagonism
What Do These Scales Mean?
Cognitive and Intellectual Impairment Scale:
Changes in cognitive and intellectual functions due to brain
dysfunction and/or emotional changes in the individual.
Hope Scale: Optimism
Depression Scale - Provides a total score, but also consists of seven
subscales:
- Hopelessness: Hopelessness
- Self-Accusation: Depression driven by guilt or shame, hostility
directed inward
- Psychomotor Retardation: Slowed movement, thinking, and/or action
- Somatic Concerns: Physical disturbances or perceived physical
disturbances
- Death and Mutilation Depression: References to death or injury
- Separation Depression: Abandonment, loss of support
- Hostility Outward: Threats, abuse, or harm to others
Human Relations Scale:
Interest in and capacity for constructive, mutually productive, or
satisfying human relationships.
What Do These Scales Mean?
Achievement Strivings Scale:
Levels of motivation towards achievement, frustration reactions
Health-Sickness Scale:
Distinguishes references to good and bad health and reports each
separately, together with a combined measure of total references
to health issues
Quality of Life Scale:
A composite of several other scales and attempts to represent a
measure of the overall quality (positive or negative) of the
subject’s life, as revealed in the sample.
How To Use PCAD
Material to be analyzed should
appear in a text file. Select the
text file containing the speech in
question and plug it in to the
software.
(Demonstration follows…)
File => Open...
Selecting A File For Analysis
File => Score
Select Types of Output
What was analyzed?
Following is a snapshot of the text
submitted for analysis. Johnny
Sams was the volunteer used for
this analysis. He recorded (and
later transcribed) a verbal
response to the question: “Tell me
about yourself”.
The text will be read out loud for
your convenience.
Here is what was analyzed..
Standard Output
Standard Output
Standard Output
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Excel Output
What Does It All Mean?
Moderately Elevated Shame Anxiety:
Moderately elevated anxiety concerning “ridicule, inadequacy,
embarrassment, exposure of shortcomings, exposure of details of a
person’s private life.”
Slightly High Social Alienation/Personal
Disorganization:
Slightly high “disturbances in coherence and logicality of thought
processes, withdrawal, avoidance, antagonism.”
Very High Health:
Very high as relates to well-being.
Moderately High Sickness:
Moderately high as relates to sickness.
THE END!