Resources
Text Tools
The following tools are useful for transforming documents into
text format for wordscoring and performing word frequency analysis.
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pdftotext is a command
line utility for Unix, Linux and Windows to convert Adobe Acrobat .pdf files
into plain text (Copyright 1996-2000 Derek B. Noonburg.)
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wordcount.pl is a Perl script for
generating a matrix of word frequencies from a set of texts.
Usage: wordcount [texts] > output.wf
Text Sources
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European political party manifestos used
in Laver, Benoit, and Garry (2003).