Text analysis software: Commonalities, differences and limitations: The results of a review

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 299-321

  Alexa, Melina ^a   Zuell, Cornelia ^a  

^a GESIS LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer assisted content analysis; Computer assisted text analysis; Quantitative and qualitative software; Software evaluation and comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034237935     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1004740203542     Document Type: Article

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