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This speech titled 2007.03.27.remarks_on_the_floor_of_the_united_states_senate originally had 3589 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 91 cue terms and an average lag of 35.7. 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 american_forc 24
✓
0 0.000199 1
✗
0 0 0
2 week_ago 12
✓
0 0 0.0101
✗
0 0 0.99
3 __NUM___vote 3
✓
0.000199 0 0.000995
✗
0.000199 0 0.999
4 middl_east 84
✓
0 0 0.03
✗
0 0 0.97
5 counterinsurg_strategi 101
✓
0 0 0.0209
✗
0 0 0.979
6 econom_develop 8
✓
0 0 0.00159
✗
0 0 0.998
7 polit_progress 3
✓
0 0 0.000398
✗
0 0 1
8 statu_quo 49
✓
0 0 0.0241
✗
0 0 0.976
9 american_troop 89
✓
0 0 0.0233
✗
0 0 0.977
10 iraqi_forc 33
✓
0 0 0.00716
✗
0 0 0.993
11 american_forc 52
✓
0 0 0.0177
✗
0 0 0.982
12 dramat_increas 48
✓
0.000398 0 0.123
✗
0 0 0.877
13 month_ago 109
✓
0.00318 0 0.0808
✗
0 0 0.916
14 iraqi_forc 84
✓
0 0 0.0362
✗
0 0 0.964
15 prime_minist 6
✓
0 0 0.00139
✗
0 0 0.999
16 green_light 19
✓
0 0 0.00398
✗
0 0 0.996
17 iraqi_armi 14
✓
0 0 0.00299
✗
0 0 0.997
18 civilian_kill 31
✓
0 0 0.0121
✗
0 0 0.988
19 number___NUM__ 3
✓
0 0 0.00159
✗
0 0 0.998
20 move_back 21
✓
0 0 0.00637
✗
0 0 0.994
21 moqtada_al 33
✓
0 0 0.00836
✗
0 0 0.992
22 iraqi_forc 46
✓
0 0 0.0111
✗
0 0 0.989
23 american_troop 1
✓
0 0 0.000597
✗
0 0 0.999
24 al_qaeda 39
✓
0 0 0.0131
✗
0 0 0.987
25 capit_citi 9
✓
0.000199 0 0.00617
✗
0 0 0.994
26 month_ago 53
✓
0.000199 0 0.0281
✗
0.000199 0 0.972
27 al_qaeda 20
✓
0 0 0.00697
✗
0 0 0.993
28 polic_forc 10
✓
0 0 0.00219
✗
0 0 0.998
29 al_qaeda 13
✓
0 0 0.00657
✗
0 0 0.993
30 make_mistak 18
✓
0.000199 0 0.0704
✗
0 0 0.929
31 al_qaeda 50
✓
0 0 0.0261
✗
0 0 0.974
32 same_time 66
✓
0 0.000398 0.0448
✗
0 0 0.955
33 al_qaeda 42
✓
0 0 0.0135
✗
0 0 0.986
34 recent_week 9
✓
0 0 0.00318
✗
0 0 0.997
35 american_forc 3
✓
0 0 0.000597
✗
0 0 0.999
36 iraqi_forc 27
✓
0 0 0.00458
✗
0 0 0.995
37 al_qaeda 6
✓
0 0 0.00139
✗
0 0 0.999
38 american_troop 25
✓
0 0 0.0251
✗
0 0 0.975
39 vice_presid 107
✓
0 0 0.662
✗
0 0 0.338
40 iraqi_govern 58
✓
0 0 0.113
✗
0 0 0.887
41 move_forward 2
✓
0 0 0.00119
✗
0 0 0.999
42 nation_secur 27
✓
0.000199 0 0.0328
✗
0 0 0.967
43 saddam_hussein 89
✓
0.000398 0.000199 0.0338
✗
0 0 0.966
44 american_peopl 54
✓
0.0117 0 0.617
✗
0 0 0.371
45 american_nation 76
✓
0 0 0.421
✗
0 0 0.579
46 nation_secur 0
✓
0 0 0.00299
✗
0 0 0.997
47 american_nation 4
✓
0 0 0.0141
✗
0 0 0.986
48 nation_secur 0
✓
0 0 0.00199
✗
0 0 0.998
49 prime_minist 12
✓
0 0 0.0287
✗
0 0 0.971
50 sectarian_violenc 58
✓
0 0 0.0609
✗
0 0 0.939
51 foreign_polici 19
✓
0 0 0.104
✗
0 0 0.896
52 nation_secur 3
✓
0 0 0.00458
✗
0 0 0.995
53 fail_state 40
✓
0 0 0.0316
✗
0 0 0.968
54 middl_east 7
✓
0 0 0.00179
✗
0 0 0.998
55 fail_state 5
✓
0 0 0.00139
✗
0 0 0.999
56 leav_iraq 38
✓
0 0 0.0125
✗
0 0 0.987
57 al_qaeda 7
✓
0 0 0.00199
✗
0 0 0.998
58 saudi_arabia 55
✓
0.000199 0.000199 0.0235
✗
0 0 0.976
59 send_troop 75
✓
0 0 0.464
✗
0 0 0.536
60 american_troop 36
✓
0 0 0.0551
✗
0 0 0.945
61 iraqi_forc 19
✓
0 0 0.00597
✗
0 0 0.994
62 sound_familiar 14
✓
0.00199 0 0.00697
✗
0 0 0.991
63 sectarian_violenc 125
✓
0 0 0.0348
✗
0 0 0.965
64 american_soldier 9
✓
0 0 0.00219
✗
0 0 0.998
65 sectarian_violenc 11
✓
0 0 0.00199
✗
0 0 0.998
66 polic_station 26
✓
0 0 0.00736
✗
0 0 0.993
67 sectarian_violenc 27
✓
0 0 0.00597
✗
0 0 0.994
68 american_soldier 6
✓
0 0 0.000995
✗
0 0 0.999
69 sectarian_violenc 27
✓
0 0 0.00657
✗
0 0 0.993
70 al_qaeda 24
✓
0 0 0.00577
✗
0 0 0.994
71 sectarian_violenc 7
✓
0 0 0.00119
✗
0 0 0.999
72 terrorist_violenc 5
✓
0 0 0.00159
✗
0 0 0.998
73 sectarian_violenc 5
✓
0 0 0.00299
✗
0 0 0.997
74 iraqi_peopl 77
✓
0.000199 0 0.395
✗
0 0 0.605
75 polit_decis 14
✓
0 0.000398 0.509
✗
0 0 0.491
76 david_petraeu 67
✓
0.000199 0 0.181
✗
0 0 0.818
77 econom_activ 43
✓
0.00159 0.000199 0.0999
✗
0 0 0.898
78 polit_progress 34
✓
0 0 0.0706
✗
0 0 0.929
79 prime_minist 15
✓
0 0 0.00438
✗
0 0 0.996
80 iraqi_govern 13
✓
0 0 0.00259
✗
0 0 0.997
81 sunni_insurg 45
✓
0 0 0.0111
✗
0 0 0.989
82 __NUM___dai 81
✓
0.000995 0 0.845
✗
0 0 0.154
83 leav_iraq 9
✓
0 0 0.0237
✗
0 0 0.976
84 american_militari 38
✓
0 0 0.05
✗
0 0 0.95
85 militari_power 0
✓
0 0 0.00736
✗
0 0 0.993
86 troop_home 71
✓
0.000199 0 0.623
✗
0 0 0.377
87 resolut_author 21
✓
0 0 0.0605
✗
0 0.000199 0.939
88 gener_petraeu 131
✓
0.000199 0 0.447
✗
0 0 0.553
89 elect_offici 82
✓
0.000597 0.000199 0.399
✗
0 0 0.6
90 polit_courag 25
✓
0 0 0.0792
✗
0 0 0.921
91 polit_expedi 129
✓
0.00159 0 0.339
✗
0 0 0.659
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 128