Opening up to big data: Computer-assisted analysis of textual data in social sciences

Historical Social Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 332-357

  Wiedemann, Gregor ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Caqdas; Computer assisted text analysis; Corpus linguistics; Digital humanities; Discourse analysis; Ehumanities; Lexicometrics; Mixed methods; Qualitative data analysis; Quantitative text analysis; Text mining

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979798573     PISSN: 01726404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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