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This speech titled 2008.05.06.remarks_on_judicial_philosophy_at_wake_forest_university_in_winstonsalem_north_carolina originally had 3772 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 121 cue terms and an average lag of 28.3. 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 north_carolina 36
✓
0.0466 0.00119 0.952
✗
0 0 0
2 __NUM___a.m 60
✓
0.0171 0 0.124
✗
0.0384 0.00119 0.82
3 unit_state 117
✓
0.00398 0 0.308
✗
0.00517 0 0.683
4 american_presid 112
✓
0.00139 0 0.246
✗
0.000199 0 0.752
5 chief_execut 16
✓
0.00756 0 0.0478
✗
0.00139 0 0.943
6 american_constitut 159
✓
0.000398 0 0.983
✗
0 0 0.0161
7 feder_power 14
✓
0 0 0.00677
✗
0 0 0.993
8 judici_branch 24
✓
0 0 0.00836
✗
0 0 0.992
9 feder_court 86
✓
0 0 0.0338
✗
0 0 0.966
10 judici_power 7
✓
0 0 0.00219
✗
0 0 0.998
11 feder_judg 6
✓
0 0 0.00159
✗
0 0 0.998
12 proper_role 119
✓
0 0 0.0414
✗
0 0 0.959
13 presidenti_elect 13
✓
0 0 0.00597
✗
0 0 0.994
14 feder_court 18
✓
0 0 0.00756
✗
0 0 0.992
15 judici_power 30
✓
0 0 0.0105
✗
0 0 0.989
16 feder_court 53
✓
0.00796 0 0.0173
✗
0 0 0.975
17 moral_author 39
✓
0.0229 0.000199 0.0177
✗
0.00796 0 0.951
18 make_law 21
✓
0.00557 0 0.00955
✗
0.03 0.000199 0.955
19 feder_judg 134
✓
0.000398 0 0.086
✗
0.00557 0 0.908
20 judici_power 37
✓
0 0 0.0215
✗
0 0 0.979
21 judici_opinion 16
✓
0.000597 0 0.00637
✗
0 0 0.993
22 judici_power 22
✓
0.00119 0 0.00716
✗
0.000597 0 0.991
23 feder_judg 15
✓
0.0931 0 0.00677
✗
0.00318 0 0.897
24 __NUM___case 5
✓
0.623 0 0.00577
✗
0.135 0 0.236
25 suprem_court 19
✓
0.24 0 0
✗
0.759 0 0.000199
26 court_opinion 0
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
27 intern_law 9
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
28 elect_repres 94
✓
0.00179 0 0
✗
0.998 0 0
29 year___NUM__ 2
✓
0.00119 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
30 suprem_court 10
✓
0.00279 0 0
✗
0.997 0 0
31 local_govern 13
✓
0.00836 0 0
✗
0.992 0 0
32 big_corpor 4
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
33 privat_properti 31
✓
0.000398 0 0
✗
1 0 0
34 constitut_requir 9
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
35 emin_domain 9
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
36 privat_properti 5
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
37 local_govern 50
✓
0.000398 0 0
✗
1 0 0
38 privat_properti 3
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
39 american_citizen 3
✓
0.0683 0 0.045
✗
0.887 0 0
40 suprem_court 29
✓
0.191 0 0.0205
✗
0.761 0 0.0273
41 unit_state 18
✓
0.193 0 0.078
✗
0.687 0 0.042
42 establish_claus 31
✓
0.408 0 0.000398
✗
0.589 0 0.00259
43 ninth_circuit 6
✓
0.0436 0 0
✗
0.956 0 0
44 circuit_court 0
✓
0.000398 0 0
✗
1 0 0
45 peopl_seek 9
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
46 san_francisco 59
✓
0.000597 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
47 ninth_circuit 15
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
48 judici_activ 67
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
49 activist_judg 49
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
50 doubl_standard 56
✓
0.000597 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
51 feder_judg 2
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
52 fair_game 37
✓
0 0 0.000398
✗
1 0 0
53 nation_debat 19
✓
0.000597 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
54 confirm_hear 13
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
55 suprem_court 31
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
56 code_word 15
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
57 presidenti_nomine 127
✓
0.000796 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
58 lower_court 3
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
59 long_ago 15
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
60 __NUM___nomin 39
✓
0.000199 0 0.000199
✗
1 0 0
61 circuit_court 8
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
62 north_carolina 5
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
63 circuit_court 38
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
64 senat_major 14
✓
0 0 0.0139
✗
0.986 0 0
65 feder_judg 28
✓
0.000199 0 0.000995
✗
0.985 0 0.0139
66 constitut_law 7
✓
0.000199 0 0.00159
✗
0.983 0 0.0149
67 senat_rule 14
✓
0 0 0.0237
✗
0.96 0 0.0159
68 tom_coburn 10
✓
0 0 0.00159
✗
0.959 0 0.0396
69 judici_nomin 36
✓
0.000199 0 0.00716
✗
0.956 0 0.0362
70 senat_major 84
✓
0 0 0.00557
✗
0.956 0 0.0384
71 year_ago 14
✓
0.000995 0 0.00179
✗
0.954 0 0.043
72 __NUM___vote 11
✓
0.000398 0 0.00338
✗
0.955 0 0.0412
73 senat_rule 13
✓
0.00418 0 0.000398
✗
0.955 0 0.04
74 senat_obama 86
✓
0.0388 0 0.000597
✗
0.958 0 0.00279
75 fundament_question 24
✓
0.00498 0 0
✗
0.995 0 0
76 social_polici 2
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
77 elect_repres 13
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
78 senat_obama 15
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
79 senat_clinton 2
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
80 john_robert 8
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
81 senat_obama 7
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
82 __NUM___senat 70
✓
0.000398 0 0
✗
1 0 0
83 john_robert 12
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
84 fall_short 1
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
85 senat_obama 16
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
86 judici_activ 42
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
87 activist_judg 12
✓
0 0 0.000995
✗
0.999 0 0
88 senat_obama 10
✓
0.00279 0 0.0285
✗
0.968 0 0.000995
89 judiciari_committe 41
✓
0.00119 0 0.0587
✗
0.914 0 0.0257
90 chief_justic 11
✓
0.000398 0 0.114
✗
0.804 0 0.0816
91 unit_state 3
✓
0.000398 0 0.252
✗
0.557 0 0.191
92 senat_obama 4
✓
0.000398 0 0.0203
✗
0.544 0 0.436
93 samuel_alito 13
✓
0 0 0.0326
✗
0.522 0 0.445
94 activist_judg 14
✓
0.00995 0 0.00219
✗
0.522 0 0.465
95 law_professor 5
✓
0 0 0.000796
✗
0.532 0 0.467
96 chief_justic 35
✓
0 0 0.00458
✗
0.532 0 0.463
97 samuel_alito 4
✓
0.000398 0 0.000398
✗
0.532 0 0.467
98 presid_bill_clinton 26
✓
0.0438 0 0.000995
✗
0.533 0 0.423
99 high_court 13
✓
0.0251 0 0.000597
✗
0.577 0 0.398
100 fellow_republican 16
✓
0.0217 0.000398 0.0105
✗
0.601 0 0.366
101 unit_state 39
✓
0.15 0.000199 0.0836
✗
0.622 0.000199 0.144
102 presid_call 9
✓
0.0587 0.000199 0.00299
✗
0.77 0.000597 0.167
103 feder_judg 87
✓
0.173 0 0.00159
✗
0.825 0 0.000597
104 feder_court 30
✓
0.00219 0 0
✗
0.998 0 0
105 state_court 4
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
106 proper_role 21
✓
0 0 0.000199
✗
1 0 0
107 elect_presid 18
✓
0.00179 0 0.0603
✗
0.938 0 0
108 harri_truman 1
✓
0 0 0.00478
✗
0.935 0 0.0599
109 same_level 33
✓
0.00179 0 0.0217
✗
0.931 0 0.046
110 judici_nomin 7
✓
0.00139 0 0.00338
✗
0.932 0 0.0637
111 suprem_court 33
✓
0.000199 0 0.0635
✗
0.892 0 0.0442
112 american_peopl 48
✓
0.0492 0 0.411
✗
0.448 0 0.0919
113 judici_restraint 51
✓
0.0175 0 0.073
✗
0.481 0 0.428
114 john_robert 10
✓
0 0 0.00796
✗
0.498 0 0.495
115 samuel_alito 2
✓
0 0 0.000597
✗
0.497 0 0.502
116 judici_power 43
✓
0 0 0.935
✗
0.00915 0 0.0555
117 feder_power 9
✓
0 0 0.00617
✗
0.00517 0 0.989
118 unit_state 54
✓
0.00259 0 0.0464
✗
0.00239 0 0.949
119 american_peopl 75
✓
0.000398 0 0.0541
✗
0.000199 0 0.945
120 judici_branch 12
✓
0 0 0.0127
✗
0 0 0.987
121 feder_court 9
✓
0 0 0.00458
✗
0 0 0.995
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