LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) is widely used word-level content analysis software. It was used in large number of studies in the fields of clinical, social and personality psychology, and it is adapted for text analysis in 11 world languages. The aim of this research was to validate empirically newly constructed adaptation of LIWC software for Serbian language (LIWCser). The sample of the texts consisted of 384 texts in Serbian and 141 texts in English. It included scientific paper abstracts, newspaper articles, movie subtitles, short stories and essays. Comparative analysis of Serbian and English version of the software demonstrated acceptable level of equivalence (ICCM=.70). Average coverage of the texts with LIWCser dictionary was 69.93%, and variability of this measure in different types of texts is in line with expected. Adaptation of LIWC software for Serbian opens entirely new possibilities of assessment of spontaneous verbal behaviour that is highly relevant for diff...erent fields of psychology.
Keywords:
automatic text analysis, Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count - LIWC / LIWCser / psychometric evaluation of LIWCser
TY - JOUR
AU - Bjekić, Jovana
AU - Lazarević, Ljiljana B.
AU - Živanović, Marko
AU - Knežević, Goran
PY - 2014
UR - http://rimi.imi.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/571
AB - LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) is widely used word-level content analysis software. It was used in large number of studies in the fields of clinical, social and personality psychology, and it is adapted for text analysis in 11 world languages. The aim of this research was to validate empirically newly constructed adaptation of LIWC software for Serbian language (LIWCser). The sample of the texts consisted of 384 texts in Serbian and 141 texts in English. It included scientific paper abstracts, newspaper articles, movie subtitles, short stories and essays. Comparative analysis of Serbian and English version of the software demonstrated acceptable level of equivalence (ICCM=.70). Average coverage of the texts with LIWCser dictionary was 69.93%, and variability of this measure in different types of texts is in line with expected. Adaptation of LIWC software for Serbian opens entirely new possibilities of assessment of spontaneous verbal behaviour that is highly relevant for different fields of psychology.
PB - Društvo psihologa Srbije, Beograd
T2 - Psihologija
T1 - Psychometric evaluation of the Serbian dictionary for automatic text analysis - LIWCser
EP - 32
IS - 1
SP - 5
VL - 47
DO - 10.2298/PSI1401005B
UR - conv_3267
ER -
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Bjekić, J., Lazarević, L. B., Živanović, M.,& Knežević, G.. (2014). Psychometric evaluation of the Serbian dictionary for automatic text analysis - LIWCser. in Psihologija
Društvo psihologa Srbije, Beograd., 47(1), 5-32.
https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI1401005B
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Bjekić J, Lazarević LB, Živanović M, Knežević G. Psychometric evaluation of the Serbian dictionary for automatic text analysis - LIWCser. in Psihologija. 2014;47(1):5-32.
doi:10.2298/PSI1401005B
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Bjekić, Jovana, Lazarević, Ljiljana B., Živanović, Marko, Knežević, Goran, "Psychometric evaluation of the Serbian dictionary for automatic text analysis - LIWCser" in Psihologija, 47, no. 1 (2014):5-32,
https://doi.org/10.2298/PSI1401005B .,
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