To get them all in at once, first save your existing dictionary someplace, just in case. Then do the following:

1) Format your Word document contents as

>>Category 1 Name<<
pattern1
pattern2

>>Category 2 Name<<
pattern3
pattern4

2) Save the document in UTF-8. In Word, that something like ’save as encoded text’ then choosing UTF-8 from the list.

3) Inside the Yoshikoder open the saved file using the ‘import VBPro dictionary’ function.

That should get everything in at once.

The new version is a bit of a mess still I’m afraid, but I’m still hoping for a nice stable release on the 31st.

In the meantime, I have a quick question. I wonder if there is any way of taking Word documents (or .txt documents) and converting them to Yoshikoder dictionaries?

The reason I ask is that I have a Word document with a list of keywords that runs about 190 pages (each keyword is on it’s own line) and I dread the prospect of having to do things the old-fashioned way, i.e., by hand (typing).

Thanks kindly

Marc-André

As far as I know it’s only available publicly via a web interface at http://www.webuse.umd.edu:9090/ For some reason UMD haven’t answered my intermittent email about accessing other forms of the GI. (Actually they don’t answer my email at all). So it’s all a bit mysterious.

The relevant GI dictionaries are still available for download though, and can be massaged quite easily into, say, VBPro format. Bear in mind that the GI does somewhat sophisticated word sense disambiguation which most programs no longer attempt, Yoshikoder included. Hence your results won’t be quite the same as the GI’s. But I’d expect them to be very similar in large samples.

I am currently writing my master’s thesis and want to analyze the level of negativity of company specific news articles and how it affects inevstors. I will download the articles from Factiva or LexisNexis. I will perform pretty basic analysis on the articles, e.g. proportion of negative words relative to the total amount of words in article, and so on.

So, on to my question: Is Yoshikoder suitable for this kind of research? Does it have the capacity to analyze say 100,000 news articles (word length will be less than 1,000 per article) in reasonable time? Initially I was considering using the General Inquirer (since it features the Harvard IV-4 dictionary’s negative word tag, which is very important for my research), but was unable to find it on the internet, nor was I successful at contacting its developers. However, I believe the same negative word-tag might be included in Yoshikoder, and if not, it could be added there relatively easily?

Thanks for your help,
Best regards,

Mika