LE-CAT: Lexicon-based Categorization and Analysis Tool

Software
R package and shiny app for lexicon based categorisation
Author

James Tripp, Noortje Marres

Published

March 20, 2020

Code on GitHub

Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed. codecov R-CMD-check License: MIT DOI

I developed LE-CAT for Professor Noortje Marres. The software is written in R and searches for words in a text. Each word is associated with a category. The presence of the word (e.g., Tony Blair) is assumed to indicate the presence of the category in the text (e.g., politics). Summary information about category co-occurence is displayed displayed to the user as is a network of category and word co-occurence.