Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package (qdap) is an R package for computer assisted

qualitative data analysis Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation. This ...

, particularly quantitative

discourse analysis Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, spoken, or sign language, including any significant semiotic event. The objects of discourse analysis (discourse, writing, conversation, communicative sy ...

transcript Transcript may refer to: * Transcript (biology), a molecule of RNA transcribed from DNA * Transcript (education), a copy of a student's permanent academic record * Transcript (law), a written record of spoken language in court proceedings * Transc ...

analysis and

natural language processing Natural language processing (NLP) is a subfield of computer science and especially artificial intelligence. It is primarily concerned with providing computers with the ability to process data encoded in natural language and is thus closely related ...

. Qdap is installable from, and runs within, the R system. Qdap is a tool for quantitative analysis of qualitative transcripts and therefore provides a bridge between quantitative and qualitative research approaches. It is designed for transcript analysis, but its features overlap with natural language processing and

text mining Text mining, text data mining (TDM) or text analytics is the process of deriving high-quality information from text. It involves "the discovery by computer of new, previously unknown information, by automatically extracting information from differe ...

. Its features include: * tools for the preparation of transcript data * frequency counts of sentence types, words, sentences, turns of talk, syllables * aggregation using grouping variables * word extracting and visualization * statistical analysis. For higher level statistical analysis and visualization of text, qdap is integrated with R and offers integration with other R packages.

Alternatives

* KH Coder (Windows, Linux, macOS) for quantitative content analysis and text mining.

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qdap manualqdap developer websiteText Mining First-step Report
{{DEFAULTSORT:Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package Free QDA software Cross-platform free software Free R (programming language) software Science software for macOS Science software for Linux

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