LIWC: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count

A small bit of LIWC news: we're officially moving all the way over to bsky for all future updates/communication🤠 bsky.app/profile/liwc.a…

Major LIWC-22 update released today! Boatloads of updates and new features. Key changes include several new ways for LIWC-22 to run on HPC/cluster computing environments, multilingual CLI support, and new dictionary evaluation features. Hooray!

In a new @ConversationUS piece with @hcshulman and @Todd_Rogers_, we describe our @ScienceAdvances piece on the benefits of simple writing for #journalism and #news. Check it out! theconversation.com/readers-prefer…

@fedorenkoin Side note: the LIWC2015 dictionary (along with other, older versions) are still included in LIWC-22 so that ongoing and future work can still be performed using the same dictionaries used in previously published work and studies.

@fedorenkoin Some additional information on this can be found in the "New and Updated LIWC-22 Language Categories" section of the development and psychometrics manual, which can be found on this page: liwc.app/help/psychomet…

Just noticed that in the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) model, widely used for social sentiment analysis, words "dont like", "won't like" and synonymous are all included in the Posemo dictionary as if they all express POSITIVE emotions. @liwc_research, I have questions

@fedorenkoin See, e.g., journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02… sciencedirect.com/science/articl… doi.org/10.1111/j.1475…

@fedorenkoin that they are thinking (and verbalizing) within the dimension of "happiness" or, more broadly, positive affect. The "tone" measures, on the other hand, are more analogous to sentiment, which is what you're describing. 3/3

Today is a big day — we've just released a *big* update to LIWC-22, with lots of neat little additions and a couple of big additions to v1.8.0. Now, you can compare word frequencies, easily analyze Japanese-language texts with J-LIWC2015, and more! See: liwc.app/help/release-n…

@PraharshitaK @DrRyanBoyd has you covered 😀

@liwc_research My server crashed and now I am not able to activate my license on my server or laptop anymore. I had two instances up - my laptop and my server. My laptop has an active license running but due to some error, it logged me out and i had to log in again. Help!

Why yes, we're also on *that other app*: bsky.app/profile/liwc.a…

LIWC22 for life. ✊🏼✊🏼

‼️ RESCHEDULED Are you looking for a way to make content analysis easier and more efficient? Look no further than our LIWC Video Workshop! 🚂 Featuring Purdue Associate Professor, Jennifer Hoewe. 🗓️ Please join us Friday, Sept 29th at 12PM. @jenniferhoewe @purduelibarts

I am developing an ecocritical dictionary LIWC-22 (1992 origin, streamlined 2007) has been an absolute blast, but it reminds me that AI is not new - it’s actually ancient Like the dot-com bubble when the internet wasnt new, please be careful with your investments

Extremely happy to announce that another of my PhD papers (2/3!!) has recently been published online: doi.org/10.1521/pedi.2… In this study, @DrRyanBoyd and I utilised computational linguistic methods to better understand & characterise the nature of social dysfunction in #BPD

New paper on disciplinary bias in @ERjournal_AERA. Using NLP on 3.5M comments, teachers sending students to the office were more negative toward Black vs. White students, and more impersonal toward Asian vs. White students. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/6SNGIMV…

@Charlotteent discussing key findings from her #PhD study with @DrRyanBoyd on social dysfunction in #BPD, using language analysis of free-writing prompts via @liwc_research #BABCP2023

@PribbleJenny Hi Jenny! Because of how they're calculated, they are only generated for the built-in dictionaries (English 2015/22 dictionaries, German 2015 dictionary). But, you may be able to calculate some of them for the Spanish translation as well. Drop us an e-mail and we'll chat :)

Political Science twitter: I'm trying to use LIWC (@liwc_research) in Spanish, but it doesn't generate summary measures (does in other languages, but not Spanish).. Does anyone know if there's a Spanish dictionary out there that does generate summary measures? Thanks, in advance!