Proposal of Quantitative Text Analysis Method for Social Researchers and Development of Required Software

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26705006
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: HIGUCHI Koichi 立命館大学, 産業社会学部, 准教授 (00452384)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 社会調査法 / 質的研究 / 内容分析 / テキストマイニング / 計量テキスト分析

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Various textual data are obtained by social researches, such as responses to open ended questions in questionnaires, transcripts of interview records, conversation records, and newspaper articles. In this research, we propose a method to quantitatively analyze such data using a computer. And developed "KH Coder" as analysis software necessary for its practice. We also examined how to use this method and software to carry out high academic value research.

Free Research Field

社会学