IGI Global eBooks· 2012· Book chapter
Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC)
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Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is a text analysis software that classifies texts along psychological dimensions and predicts behavioral outcomes by referencing a dictionary of word categories.
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Key points
- LIWC is a text analysis software referencing a dictionary of word categories.
- It classifies texts along psychological dimensions and predicts behavioral outcomes.
- LIWC is used in social sciences for applied natural language processing.
- Its analyses can reflect underlying psychology of various individual and social characteristics.
- Applications can be extended by developing new algorithms or assessing new categories/languages.
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Abstract
Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC; Pennebaker, Booth, & Francis, 2007) is a word counting software program that references a dictionary of grammatical, psychological, and content word categories. LIWC has been used to efficiently classify texts along psychological dimensions and to predict behavioral outcomes, making it a text analysis tool widely used in the social sciences. LIWC can be considered to be a tool for applied natural language processing since, beyond classification, the relative uses of various LIWC categories can reflect the underlying psychology of demographic characteristics, honesty, health, status, relationship quality, group dynamics, or social context. By using a comparison group or longitudinal information, or validation with other psychological measures, LIWC analyses can be informative of a variety of psychological states and behaviors. Combining LIWC categories using new algorithms or using the processor to assess new categories and languages further extend the potential applications of LIWC.
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Field: Social Psychology
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