txttool: Utilities for text analysis in Stata

Stata Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 817-829

  Williams, Unislawa ^a   Williams, Sean P ^b  

^a SPELMAN COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Sun Trust Bank of South Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Bag of words; Cleaning; dm0077; Porter stemmer; Stop words; Subwords; Text mining; txttool

Indexed keywords

EID: 85000885438     PISSN: 1536867X     EISSN: 15368734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1536867x1401400407     Document Type: Article

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