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This speech titled 2007.04.11.speech_on_iraq_at_the_virginia_military_institute_in_lexington originally had 4571 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 107 cue terms and an average lag of 38.9. 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 difficult_time 111
✓
0.00219 0.000597 0.997
✗
0 0 0
2 __NUM___anniversari 65
✓
0 0 0.184
✗
0 0 0.816
3 marshal_plan 3
✓
0.000398 0 0.0117
✗
0 0 0.988
4 press_corp 57
✓
0.000398 0 0.0768
✗
0 0 0.923
5 recent_week 30
✓
0 0 0.0181
✗
0 0 0.982
6 al_qaeda 11
✓
0 0 0.00299
✗
0 0 0.997
7 gener_petraeu 20
✓
0 0 0.00816
✗
0 0 0.992
8 unit_state 20
✓
0.000199 0 0.0147
✗
0 0 0.985
9 nation_elect 42
✓
0 0 0.0163
✗
0 0 0.984
10 elect_leader 0
✓
0 0 0.000199
✗
0 0 1
11 gener_petraeu 11
✓
0 0 0.00438
✗
0 0 0.996
12 middl_east 83
✓
0 0 0.0225
✗
0 0 0.978
13 unit_state 10
✓
0 0 0.00657
✗
0 0 0.993
14 forese_futur 8
✓
0 0 0.00438
✗
0 0 0.996
15 muslim_world 25
✓
0 0 0.00438
✗
0 0 0.996
16 earli_dai 16
✓
0.00756 0 0.167
✗
0 0 0.826
17 interven_year 31
✓
0 0.000398 0.347
✗
0.000199 0 0.652
18 radic_islam 11
✓
0 0 0.0211
✗
0 0 0.979
19 __NUM___centuri 36
✓
0 0 0.0456
✗
0 0 0.954
20 vast_major 24
✓
0 0 0.00915
✗
0 0 0.991
21 __NUM___centuri 15
✓
0 0 0.00557
✗
0 0 0.994
22 al_qaeda 2
✓
0 0 0.000796
✗
0 0 0.999
23 good_life 16
✓
0 0 0.00915
✗
0 0 0.991
24 middl_east 27
✓
0 0 0.0203
✗
0 0 0.98
25 kei_element 19
✓
0.00318 0 0.395
✗
0 0 0.602
26 activ_support 46
✓
0.000796 0 0.0661
✗
0.00139 0 0.932
27 muslim_world 5
✓
0 0 0.00657
✗
0.000398 0 0.993
28 global_system 11
✓
0 0 0.0523
✗
0 0 0.948
29 econom_success 3
✓
0 0 0.0346
✗
0 0 0.965
30 polit_freedom 7
✓
0 0 0.00677
✗
0 0 0.993
31 human_heart 13
✓
0.00219 0.000199 0.0163
✗
0 0 0.981
32 basic_human 46
✓
0.000199 0 0.128
✗
0.000597 0.000199 0.871
33 unit_state 17
✓
0.000199 0 0.0302
✗
0.000199 0 0.969
34 gener_petraeu 73
✓
0 0 0.0438
✗
0 0 0.956
35 spend_time 22
✓
0 0 0.00716
✗
0 0 0.993
36 polit_advantag 43
✓
0 0 0.0133
✗
0 0 0.987
37 gener_petraeu 90
✓
0 0 0.0277
✗
0 0 0.972
38 militari_strategi 4
✓
0 0 0.000796
✗
0 0 0.999
39 iraqi_forc 81
✓
0 0 0.0175
✗
0 0 0.982
40 al_qaeda 3
✓
0 0 0.000995
✗
0 0 0.999
41 american_forc 21
✓
0 0 0.00318
✗
0 0 0.997
42 integr_part 7
✓
0 0 0.00597
✗
0 0 0.994
43 prime_minist 51
✓
0 0 0.0143
✗
0 0 0.986
44 polit_futur 69
✓
0.000199 0 0.0326
✗
0 0 0.967
45 iraqi_peopl 20
✓
0.000199 0 0.0384
✗
0 0 0.961
46 long_ago 63
✓
0 0 0.539
✗
0 0 0.461
47 make_progress 19
✓
0 0 0.0372
✗
0 0 0.963
48 gener_petraeu 153
✓
0 0 0.1
✗
0 0 0.9
49 al_qaeda 210
✓
0 0 0.0826
✗
0 0 0.917
50 civil_war 5
✓
0 0 0.000995
✗
0 0 0.999
51 vital_interest 18
✓
0 0 0.00418
✗
0 0 0.996
52 wild_west 9
✓
0 0 0.00478
✗
0 0 0.995
53 leav_iraq 10
✓
0 0 0.00458
✗
0 0 0.995
54 iraqi_govern 6
✓
0 0 0.00179
✗
0 0 0.998
55 govern_author 0
✓
0 0 0.000199
✗
0 0 1
56 nuclear_weapon 94
✓
0 0 0.0531
✗
0 0 0.947
57 saudi_arabia 31
✓
0 0 0.00836
✗
0 0 0.992
58 american_troop 79
✓
0 0 0.0211
✗
0 0 0.979
59 strateg_interest 20
✓
0 0 0.00657
✗
0 0 0.993
60 moral_oblig 9
✓
0 0 0.00378
✗
0 0 0.996
61 saddam_hussein 7
✓
0 0 0.00179
✗
0 0 0.998
62 ethnic_cleans 42
✓
0 0 0.00876
✗
0 0 0.991
63 sectarian_violenc 7
✓
0 0 0.00139
✗
0 0 0.999
64 gener_petraeu 68
✓
0 0 0.0195
✗
0 0 0.98
65 militari_strategi 31
✓
0 0 0.00716
✗
0 0 0.993
66 polit_calcul 133
✓
0.000199 0 0.0583
✗
0 0 0.941
67 democrat_leader 126
✓
0.0619 0.00398 0.07
✗
0.000199 0 0.864
68 unit_state 31
✓
0.000199 0 0.0798
✗
0.00418 0.000199 0.916
69 elect_leader 31
✓
0.000199 0 0.0155
✗
0.000597 0 0.984
70 al_qaeda 106
✓
0 0 0.0267
✗
0 0 0.973
71 qaeda_terrorist 0
✓
0 0 0.000199
✗
0 0 1
72 present_danger 3
✓
0 0 0.00139
✗
0 0 0.999
73 al_qaeda 32
✓
0 0 0.00597
✗
0 0 0.994
74 qaeda_terrorist 0
✓
0 0 0.000398
✗
0 0 1
75 unit_state 77
✓
0 0 0.042
✗
0 0 0.958
76 sectarian_violenc 11
✓
0 0 0.00438
✗
0 0 0.996
77 al_qaeda 5
✓
0 0 0.00139
✗
0 0 0.999
78 civil_war 10
✓
0 0 0.00139
✗
0 0 0.999
79 sectarian_violenc 11
✓
0 0 0.00119
✗
0 0 0.999
80 al_qaeda 38
✓
0 0 0.0217
✗
0 0 0.978
81 unit_state 8
✓
0.000398 0 0.0509
✗
0 0 0.949
82 iraqi_peopl 3
✓
0 0 0.0231
✗
0 0 0.977
83 human_life 37
✓
0.000796 0.000597 0.878
✗
0 0 0.12
84 __DATE___morn 11
✓
0 0 0.00299
✗
0.000796 0.000597 0.996
85 small_children 73
✓
0 0 0.0448
✗
0 0 0.955
86 back_seat 3
✓
0 0 0.00299
✗
0 0 0.997
87 terribl_thing 28
✓
0 0 0.0103
✗
0 0 0.99
88 iraqi_children 2
✓
0 0 0.00219
✗
0 0 0.998
89 nation_secur 95
✓
0.00139 0 0.983
✗
0 0 0.0153
90 unit_state 7
✓
0 0 0.0241
✗
0.000995 0 0.975
91 saudi_arabia 39
✓
0.000199 0 0.0639
✗
0.000796 0 0.935
92 unit_state 36
✓
0.000398 0 0.0388
✗
0 0 0.961
93 iraqi_armi 66
✓
0 0 0.0332
✗
0 0 0.967
94 hard_work 23
✓
0.0746 0.000398 0.195
✗
0 0 0.73
95 polit_leader 127
✓
0.000597 0 0.163
✗
0.00259 0.000398 0.833
96 gener_petraeu 109
✓
0 0 0.163
✗
0 0 0.837
97 senat_obama 23
✓
0.00498 0 0.109
✗
0 0 0.886
98 american_peopl 53
✓
0.000199 0 0.087
✗
0.000995 0 0.912
99 gener_petraeu 45
✓
0.000398 0 0.0442
✗
0 0 0.955
100 public_opinion 123
✓
0.0416 0.000199 0.0784
✗
0.000398 0 0.879
101 opinion_poll 0
✓
0.000199 0.000199 0.000995
✗
0.0416 0.000199 0.957
✗
0.0406 0.000398 0.893
103 dai_ago 26
✓
0 0 0.00716
✗
0.0527 0.000796 0.939
✗
0.0525 0.000796 0.897
105 high_school 192
✓
0.0115 0.00159 0.486
✗
0.00338 0 0.497
106 polit_advantag 32
✓
0 0.00239 0.0649
✗
0.000995 0.00179 0.93
107 great_nation 8
✓
0 0.000398 0.00935
✗
0.000995 0.00418 0.985
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 40