John McCain

This speech titled 2008.09.29.excerpts_of_interview_with_sarah_palin_by_katie_couric_of_cbs_news originally had 802 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 11 cue terms and an average lag of 55.8. 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 barack_obama 47
0.0187 0 0.981
0 0 0
2 sarah_palin 37
0 0 0.103
0.000199 0 0.896
3 unit_state 63
0.000199 0 0.127
0 0 0.873
4 john_mccain 21
0 0 0.047
0 0 0.953
5 sound_bite 110
0.00517 0 0.22
0 0 0.775
6 talk_back 32
0.0466 0.000398 0.0669
0.00557 0 0.881
7 unit_state 75
0.0231 0 0.18
0.0462 0.000199 0.75
8 advers_affect 69
0.0157 0.000597 0.14
0.0669 0 0.777
9 america_secur 5
0 0 0.0169
0.0812 0.000796 0.901
10 ronald_reagan 172
0.00259 0 0.362
0.0386 0 0.597
11 presid_clinton 5
0 0 0.0197
0.0338 0 0.946
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 113