Fred Thompson

This speech titled 2007.08.21.prepared_remarks_to_the_veterans_of_foreign_wars_national_convention originally had 1918 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 49 cue terms and an average lag of 34.5. 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 great_nation 64
0.0121 0.0708 0.917
0 0 0
2 long_time 20
0 0 0
0.0995 0.00478 0.896
3 unit_state 4
0 0 0
0.215 0 0.785
4 power_forc 4
0 0 0
0.356 0.000597 0.644
5 peopl_feel 42
0 0 0
0.357 0.000995 0.642
6 unit_state 7
0 0 0
0.229 0 0.771
7 arm_forc 11
0 0 0
0.161 0 0.839
8 high_tech 11
0 0 0
0.249 0.000199 0.751
9 radic_islam 180
0 0 0
0.581 0 0.419
10 global_war 21
0 0 0
0.596 0 0.404
11 american_peopl 39
0 0 0
0.611 0 0.389
12 western_civil 52
0 0 0
0.668 0 0.332
13 unit_state 5
0 0 0
0.711 0 0.289
14 soviet_union 30
0 0 0
0.728 0 0.272
15 unit_state 24
0 0 0
0.746 0 0.254
16 osama_bin_laden 5
0 0 0
0.822 0.00219 0.176
17 make_progress 55
0 0 0
0.748 0.174 0.0782
18 iwo_jima 50
0 0 0
0.77 0.121 0.109
19 american_flag 19
0 0 0
0.797 0.0866 0.117
20 ethnic_cleans 9
0 0 0
0.796 0.0153 0.189
21 middl_east 7
0 0 0
0.77 0.00836 0.222
22 world_histori 46
0 0 0
0.586 0.00239 0.411
23 histori_teach 0
0 0 0
0.276 0.00219 0.722
24 nation_prioriti 79
0 0 0
0.233 0.00239 0.764
25 medic_cost 17
0 0 0
0.347 0.00259 0.651
26 entitl_program 9
0 0 0
0.359 0.000398 0.64
27 discretionari_spend 4
0 0 0
0.36 0 0.64
28 defens_budget 4
0 0 0
0.429 0.000199 0.57
29 fiscal_polici 38
0 0 0
0.512 0.00119 0.487
30 nation_defens 8
0 0 0
0.59 0.000597 0.409
31 young_men 16
0 0 0
0.739 0.000199 0.261
32 medic_center 13
0 0 0
0.901 0 0.0991
33 san_antonio 2
0 0 0
0.903 0 0.0967
34 young_soldier 18
0 0 0
0.905 0.000398 0.0945
35 main_goal 126
0 0 0
0.912 0 0.0884
36 month_ago 42
0 0 0
0.941 0.000199 0.0589
37 york_time 135
0 0 0
0.938 0.000199 0.0623
38 front_page 15
0 0 0
0.939 0.000199 0.0609
39 young_peopl 88
0 0 0
0.927 0.000398 0.0722
40 arm_forc 15
0 0 0
0.0422 0 0.958
41 sean_hanniti 45
0 0 0
0.0135 0 0.986
42 san_diego 5
0 0 0
0.000398 0 1
43 marin_corp 17
0 0 0
0.000398 0 1
44 san_diego 5
0 0 0
0.000199 0 1
45 arm_forc 20
0 0 0
0.000597 0 0.999
46 fair_trial 111
0 0 0
0.108 0.00179 0.89
47 major_problem 78
0 0 0
0.268 0.00199 0.73
48 year_ahead 95
0 0 0
0.49 0.044 0.466
49 unit_state 34
0 0 0
0.547 0.000796 0.452
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