DICTION computer program
By: principal investigators, Robert North, Richard Lagerstrom, and William Mitchell
Series: ICPSR -- 5909; ICPSR (Series) -- 5909
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Description: DICTION is designed for use with Robert North, et al., British Speeches, 1870-1914, and German Speeches, 1871-1912. It is used for producing word-frequency dictionaries, substituting equivalent words into the text and deleting unwanted words from the text, and counting the cooccurrences of pairs of specified keywords in text input. DICTION also includes routines to delete common English suffixes from text words.
Notes: ICPSR data class: Class IV.

Written in Fortran IV for use with the IBM H Compiler (OPT = 2).

Related files: British Speeches, 1870-1914, and German Speeches, 1871-1912 (ICPSR 5902).