John McCain

This speech titled 2008.05.09.interview_with_roberta_mccain_by_katie_couric_of_cbs_news originally had 5521 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 70 cue terms and an average lag of 69.6. 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 long_time 49
0.0834 0 0.917
0 0 0
2 southern_california 77
0.037 0.000597 0.164
0.0553 0.00119 0.742
3 world_war_ii 303
0.000796 0 0.541
0.000597 0 0.457
4 world_war_ii 20
0.00318 0 0.0326
0.000995 0 0.963
5 world_war_ii 232
0.00159 0.000398 0.315
0.00338 0 0.679
6 vietnam_war 182
0.00557 0 0.363
0.00398 0 0.628
7 small_number 8
0.00756 0 0.0253
0.00955 0 0.958
8 greater_part 3
0.000995 0 0.0109
0.0173 0 0.971
9 lo_angel 38
0.00318 0 0.125
0.0167 0 0.856
10 __NUM___year 30
0.000995 0 0.244
0.00259 0 0.752
11 year_ago 629
0.00259 0 0.864
0 0 0.133
12 vietnam_war 42
0 0 0.0931
0 0 0.907
13 war_movement 0
0 0 0.00199
0 0 0.998
14 earli_ag 59
0.000199 0 0.158
0 0 0.841
15 close_friend 37
0.000398 0 0.0814
0 0 0.918
16 vietnam_war 237
0 0 0.443
0 0 0.557
17 pretti_good 3
0 0 0.00756
0 0 0.992
18 vietnam_war 22
0.000398 0 0.0446
0 0 0.955
19 young_children 77
0.0123 0.000597 0.158
0.000199 0 0.829
20 prison_camp 79
0 0 0.193
0 0 0.807
21 world_war_ii 156
0 0 0.301
0 0 0.699
22 militari_offic 5
0 0 0.00776
0 0 0.992
23 west_point 9
0.000597 0 0.0121
0 0 0.987
0 0 0.994
25 world_war_ii 27
0 0 0.0348
0 0 0.965
26 militari_offic 2
0 0 0.00338
0 0 0.997
27 polit_influenc 82
0.00517 0 0.0975
0 0 0.897
28 world_war_ii 47
0 0 0.0659
0.000398 0 0.934
29 world_war_ii 88
0 0 0.111
0 0 0.889
30 militari_offic 2
0 0 0.00498
0 0 0.995
31 year_ago 184
0.0342 0 0.58
0 0 0.386
32 state_legislatur 4
0.00239 0 0.0107
0.034 0 0.953
33 unit_state 51
0.00199 0 0.11
0.0346 0 0.854
34 republican_side 18
0.00179 0 0.0547
0.036 0.000199 0.907
35 republican_base 23
0.00139 0 0.0579
0.036 0.000199 0.904
36 republican_parti 65
0 0 0.173
0.0299 0 0.797
37 import_thing 243
0.0326 0 0.469
0.000199 0 0.499
38 tough_time 37
0.00776 0 0.0828
0.0225 0 0.887
39 kitchen_tabl 9
0.00219 0 0.0263
0.0253 0 0.946
40 addit___NUM__ 132
0.00318 0 0.281
0.00139 0 0.714
41 __NUM___year 0
0 0 0.00577
0.00199 0 0.992
42 korean_war 52
0.00577 0 0.123
0.000199 0 0.871
43 south_korea 5
0 0 0.0171
0.00537 0 0.978
44 gulf_war 13
0 0 0.0607
0.000199 0 0.939
45 troop_home 30
0.000199 0 0.0792
0 0 0.921
46 year_ago 42
0 0 0.101
0 0 0.899
47 polit_campaign 14
0 0 0.0304
0 0 0.97
48 american_live 25
0 0 0.0492
0 0 0.951
49 same_kind 50
0 0 0.111
0 0 0.889
50 south_korea 6
0 0 0.0149
0 0 0.985
51 troop_home 48
0 0 0.0973
0 0 0.903
52 korean_war 23
0 0 0.0486
0 0 0.951
53 south_korean 3
0 0 0.00657
0 0 0.993
54 american_troop 12
0.000398 0 0.0159
0 0 0.984
55 south_korea 2
0.000597 0 0.00537
0.000398 0 0.994
56 unit_state 43
0.00338 0 0.113
0.000597 0 0.883
57 long_dai 180
0.0183 0.000199 0.361
0.000199 0 0.62
58 arm_servic_committe 45
0 0 0.39
0 0 0.61
59 democrat_parti 80
0.000995 0 0.171
0 0 0.828
60 polit_campaign 102
0.000199 0 0.21
0 0 0.79
61 white_hous 77
0 0 0.161
0 0 0.839
62 full_disclosur 136
0 0 0.272
0 0 0.728
63 big_issu 91
0.000199 0 0.188
0 0 0.812
64 earli_ag 117
0.000398 0 0.231
0 0 0.768
65 art_museum 142
0.0386 0.000199 0.296
0 0 0.665
66 long_time 123
0.00199 0 0.333
0.00438 0 0.66
67 time_ago 0
0 0 0.00179
0.00617 0 0.992
68 world_todai 21
0 0 0.0458
0.00537 0 0.949
69 bad_govern 91
0.0131 0.000995 0.186
0.00458 0 0.795
70 close_ti 25
0.00139 0 0.0605
0.0123 0.000995 0.925
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 113