Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Social Research

Harvard HGSE

For social scientists, texts are an invaluable source of data. Whether in the form of primary sources, interviews, assessments, or other records of human communication, language is one of the most natural and important ways people preserve information, express meaning, and navigate social life. Thus, being able to study texts systematically is a powerful addition to a social scientist's research toolkit.Computer-assisted text analysis (CATA) is the practice of using computational tools to…