Topic models: a novel method for modeling couple and family text data.

ABSTRACT: Couple and family researchers often collect open-ended linguistic data-either through free-response questionnaire items, or transcripts of interviews or therapy sessions. Because participants' responses are not forced into a set number of categories, text-based data can be very rich and revealing of psychological processes. At the same time, it is highly unstructured and challenging to analyze. Within family psychology, analyzing text data typically means applying a coding system, which can quantify text data but also has several limitations, including the time needed for coding, difficulties with interrater reliability, and defining a priori what should be coded. The current article presents an alternative method for analyzing text data called topic models (Steyvers & Griffiths, 2006), wh

SUBMITTER: Atkins DC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3468715 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature