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Computer parsing and analysis of observational narratives
Author(s) -
McClintock Evie,
Pepitone Anthony J.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830250307
Subject(s) - parsing , narrative , sentence , natural language processing , computer science , linguistics , observational study , word (group theory) , artificial intelligence , action (physics) , matrix (chemical analysis) , column (typography) , event (particle physics) , mathematics , statistics , telecommunications , philosophy , physics , materials science , quantum mechanics , frame (networking) , composite material
NARRATIV is a computer system for analyzing observational narratives entered in modified English form. Parsing programs extract the parts of the speech from each sentence and reassign them to categories (e.g., actor, action, recipient) defined by the investigator. The result is an event‐by‐category matrix, in which each row represents a parsed sentence, each column a category, and each cell contains the word from the original narrative. This matrix can be recoded, expanded, or partitioned to produce frequency distribution or cross‐tabulations of values in the categories.