John Edwards

This speech titled 2008.01.03.remarks_following_the_iowa_caucuses_edwards originally had 1627 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 47 cue terms and an average lag of 30.7. You can see the original speech or the tokenized/stemmed speech with overlaying cue-lags.


Cue-lag representation

The table below shows the cue-lag representation of the speech. For each cue term, it also displays the posterior distributions over ideology.

# Cue term Lag before term Posterior distribution
Restart ∑Left Center ∑Right
1 statu_quo 17
0.346 0.0125 0.641
0 0 0
2 iowa_caucu 65
0.0687 0.000398 0.326
0.143 0.000597 0.461
3 middl_class 26
0.772 0.0245 0.000597
0.197 0.000398 0.00517
4 american_peopl 31
0.111 0 0.0794
0.805 0.000398 0.00438
5 week_ago 44
0.148 0 0.0766
0.722 0 0.0529
6 insur_compani 27
0.203 0 0
0.796 0 0.000398
7 american_peopl 29
0.0987 0 0.00498
0.896 0 0.000199
8 health_insur 14
0.0549 0 0
0.945 0 0.000199
9 __NUM___year_ago 44
0.15 0 0.0225
0.828 0 0
10 unit_state 4
0.0159 0 0.0239
0.938 0 0.0225
11 __NUM___year 21
0.0909 0.000199 0.0111
0.876 0 0.0215
12 plant_close 81
0.268 0.038 0.0135
0.676 0.000199 0.00358
13 teddi_roosevelt 33
0.24 0.000199 0.00796
0.747 0.00219 0.00259
14 franklin_roosevelt 2
0.033 0 0.000199
0.962 0.000199 0.00458
15 harri_truman 2
0.0257 0.000199 0.00378
0.966 0 0.00438
16 back_home 122
0.177 0.00299 0.561
0.257 0 0.00219
17 __NUM___year 47
0.436 0.000398 0.0436
0.346 0 0.174
18 america_todai 120
0.518 0.000597 0.000995
0.479 0 0.000995
19 health_insur 16
0.0531 0 0
0.947 0 0
20 insur_compani 0
0.00398 0 0
0.996 0 0
21 __MONEY___billion 26
0.0856 0 0
0.914 0 0
22 year_ago 5
0.0221 0.000398 0.00119
0.976 0 0
23 same_time 12
0.0458 0 0.000995
0.953 0 0
24 __NUM___million_american 9
0.0352 0 0
0.965 0 0
25 emerg_room 20
0.0663 0 0
0.934 0 0
26 health_care 4
0.0193 0 0.000398
0.98 0 0
27 breast_cancer 14
0.0498 0 0.00179
0.948 0 0.000199
28 health_care 13
0.0488 0 0.000597
0.95 0 0.000995
29 emerg_room 15
0.0535 0 0.000199
0.946 0 0
30 __NUM___million 32
0.115 0 0
0.885 0 0
31 de_moin 24
0.0898 0 0.0509
0.859 0 0.000398
32 week_ago 4
0.0197 0 0.00617
0.927 0 0.0476
33 singl_mom 5
0.0414 0 0.00139
0.927 0 0.0306
34 month_ago 27
0.0647 0.000199 0.254
0.653 0 0.0279
35 turn___NUM__ 5
0.0257 0.00199 0.0121
0.695 0.000199 0.265
36 __NUM___famili 2
0.0157 0.00119 0.00358
0.71 0.00219 0.267
37 million_peopl 55
0.135 0.0352 0.162
0.476 0.00219 0.189
38 __NUM___men 17
0.0979 0.00716 0.0894
0.506 0.0247 0.275
39 unit_state 29
0.0271 0 0.503
0.184 0 0.286
40 iowa_caucu 12
0.0135 0 0.0691
0.168 0 0.749
41 __NUM___million_american 73
0.854 0.000995 0.00119
0.14 0 0.00378
42 singl_mom 12
0.0424 0.000796 0.00796
0.944 0.000796 0.00398
43 iowa_caucu 48
0.0257 0 0.828
0.135 0 0.0115
44 tidal_wave 101
0.00199 0.000995 0.477
0.000597 0 0.519
45 south_carolina 14
0 0.000199 0.0547
0.000796 0.000398 0.944
46 tidal_wave 46
0.00219 0.000597 0.177
0.000597 0.000398 0.82
47 god_bless 102
0.0368 0.000199 0.344
0.000199 0 0.619
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 24