Basic Training for AutoMap, Software for Network Text Analysis
What does AutoMap do?
It extracts relational data from raw texts. Depending on the type of Analysis run in AutoMap,
the networks represent mental models (of individuals or teams) or social structure of
organizational systems.
AutoMap :
Network Text
Analysis
Researcher:
Coding Settings
How do I use AutoMap?
Users Guides:
AutoMap: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/automap/software/2.5.00/help/
automap_2.0_users_guide.html
CompareMap: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/automap/software/2.5.00/help/
comparemap_2.0_users_guide.html
But the Users Guide is so long
Lets do a sample analysis with a typical analysis sequence:
1. Load input texts
2. Create a Concept List
2.1. Union Concept List
3. Deletion
3.1. The idea of adjacency
3.2. Save pre-processing material
3.3. Save texts after pre-processing procedure
4. Stemming
5. Named Entity Extraction
6. Collocations (N-Grams of Size 2)
7. Generalization Thesaurus
AutoMap Basic Training Sheet
2005 Jana Diesner, Kathleen Carley
8. Map Analysis
8.1. Analysis Settings
8.2. Output Options
9. Visualization
10. Meta-Matrix Thesaurus
11. Meta-Matrix Text Analysis
11.1. But I have a different ontology
12. Sub-Matrix Selection
12.1. But not everything in my ontology is a real entity
13. Sub-Matrix Text Analysis
14. Compare Maps
I still have some question
AutoMap web page: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/automap/software.html
Version overview: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/automap/versions.html
Publications: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/projects/automap/publications.php
Discussion forum: http://www.casos.cs.cmu.edu/casosbb/viewforum.php?f=1
Contact: Kathleen M. Carley kathleen.carley@cmu.edu
Jana Diesner jdiesner@andrew.cmu.edu
AutoMap Basic Training Sheet
2005 Jana Diesner, Kathleen Carley
