Text Analysis and Word Counts (TAWC)

Introduction
Running TAWC
Importing A File
Getting Dictionaries

Introduction

The original perl version of TAWC (command line) was written by Adam Kramer and can be found at http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/adk/tawc.html. That site has more documentation -- however, that version of the tool is much harder to use.

Running TAWC

If you are using the Survey Editor, open up the table you want to edit, and then go to the "Table" menu and select "Analyze Text Strings...". You can analyze any table you want, and you can even import tables from other places.

If you have your text in a file and you're not using the Survey Editor, Click here to launch the TAWC Wizard. If that link doesn't work, click here for help with Java Web Start.

Importing a File

To import a file from text, you must format your text file as a spreadsheet. This should look like this:

The first row must be column names.

Create one line for each user -- you can break it into as many columns as you want. Make one column a unique ID -- the user ID, a.k.a. subject ID.

Then, export your file as either Microsoft Excel, CSV, or Tab-separated values.

The TAWC Wizard should guide you through the process of loading your file and analyzing it. If you have any questions about it that are not answered here or there, please contact us and we will add it to the documentation.

Getting Dictionaries

You can download dictionaries from http://www.simstat.com/WordStat/WordStatDict.htm or get information about creating your own at http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/adk/tawc.html.