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This speech titled 2007.09.21.address_to_the_national_rifle_association originally had 1925 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 58 cue terms and an average lag of 28.6. You can see the original speech or the tokenized/stemmed speech with overlaying cue-lags.

Cue-lag representation

The table below shows the cue-lag representation of the speech. For each cue term, it also displays the posterior distributions over ideology.

# Cue term Lag before term Posterior distribution
Restart ∑Left Center ∑Right
1 long_ago 28
✓
0.234 0.000995 0.765
✗
0 0 0
2 public_offic 49
✓
0.0631 0.000398 0.0412
✗
0.234 0.000796 0.661
3 gun_owner 69
✓
0.703 0 0
✗
0.297 0 0
4 nation_rifl 3
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
5 gun_owner 30
✓
0.000398 0 0
✗
1 0 0
6 modern_america 34
✓
0.000597 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
7 bear_arm 25
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
8 found_father 13
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
9 violent_crime 42
✓
0.000398 0 0
✗
1 0 0
10 assault_weapon 33
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
11 short_run 42
✓
0.000796 0 0.000199
✗
0.999 0 0
12 violent_crimin 56
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
13 gun_control 81
✓
0.000796 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
14 big_citi 5
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
15 abid_citizen 63
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
16 nation_capit 19
✓
0.000597 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
17 bear_arm 9
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
18 abid_citizen 18
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
19 assault_weapon 45
✓
0.000597 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
20 bona_fide 70
✓
0.000398 0 0
✗
1 0 0
21 gun_control 15
✓
0.000199 0 0
✗
1 0 0
22 campaign_financ 50
✓
0.000995 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
23 financ_system 0
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
24 amend_protect 87
✓
0.000796 0 0
✗
0.999 0 0
25 democrat_presidenti 16
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
26 presidenti_candid 0
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
27 gun_control 13
✓
0 0 0
✗
1 0 0
28 hillari_clinton 36
✓
0.00139 0 0.0265
✗
0.972 0 0
29 barack_obama 2
✓
0.00418 0 0.000199
✗
0.972 0 0.0237
30 john_edward 2
✓
0.00358 0 0
✗
0.976 0 0.0203
31 elect_presid 2
✓
0.00199 0 0.000199
✗
0.98 0 0.0179
32 gun_owner 11
✓
0.00398 0 0.000995
✗
0.981 0 0.0137
33 bill_clinton 4
✓
0.000199 0 0.0832
✗
0.902 0 0.0143
34 democrat_parti 16
✓
0.000398 0 0.0159
✗
0.89 0 0.0937
35 gun_control 9
✓
0.000597 0 0.00179
✗
0.89 0 0.108
36 oval_offic 3
✓
0 0.000199 0.115
✗
0.778 0.000398 0.107
37 democrat_candid 6
✓
0 0 0.0197
✗
0.761 0.000398 0.219
38 suprem_court_justic 36
✓
0.00199 0 0.127
✗
0.662 0 0.21
39 attornei_gener 4
✓
0.0149 0 0.0826
✗
0.572 0.000597 0.33
40 feder_govern 8
✓
0.0794 0 0.0597
✗
0.455 0.000199 0.406
41 democrat_candid 5
✓
0.00219 0 0.434
✗
0.393 0.000995 0.169
42 __NUM___centuri 21
✓
0.000199 0 0.458
✗
0.00179 0.000398 0.539
43 american_soldier 10
✓
0 0 0.0253
✗
0 0 0.975
44 arm_forc 28
✓
0 0 0.00736
✗
0 0 0.993
45 american_peopl 20
✓
0.000199 0 0.0173
✗
0 0 0.982
46 militari_command 32
✓
0 0 0.00935
✗
0 0 0.991
47 adult_life 63
✓
0.000199 0 0.189
✗
0 0 0.811
48 unit_state 83
✓
0.000398 0 0.479
✗
0 0 0.52
49 state_senat 0
✓
0 0 0.00617
✗
0.000199 0 0.994
50 counterinsurg_strategi 28
✓
0 0 0.0513
✗
0 0 0.949
51 gener_petraeu 49
✓
0 0 0.0145
✗
0 0 0.985
52 middl_east 29
✓
0 0 0.00756
✗
0 0 0.992
53 american_peopl 9
✓
0 0 0.00716
✗
0 0 0.993
54 al_qaeda 7
✓
0 0 0.000597
✗
0 0 0.999
55 middl_east 10
✓
0 0 0.00199
✗
0 0 0.998
56 civil_war 6
✓
0 0 0.00139
✗
0 0 0.999
57 fellow_american 150
✓
0.000597 0 0.991
✗
0 0 0.00796
58 american_peopl 22
✓
0.00637 0 0.0673
✗
0.000398 0 0.926
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 151