Psychometric evaluation of the Serbian dictionary for
automatic text analysis – LIWCser
Psychometric evaluation of the Serbian dictionary for
automatic text analysis – LIWCser
Author(s): Jovana Bjekić, Ljiljana B. Lazarević, Marko Živanović, Goran KneževićSubject(s): Lexis, Computational linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Social psychology and group interaction, Personality Psychology, Clinical psychology
Published by: Društvo psihologa Srbije
Keywords: automatic text analysis; Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count – LIWC; LIWCser; psychometric evaluation of LIWCser;
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Psihologija
- Issue Year: 47/2014
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 5-32
- Page Count: 28
- Language: English