John McCain

This speech titled 2008.04.01.address_at_episcopal_high_school_in_alexandria_virginia originally had 2411 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 31 cue terms and an average lag of 68.5. 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 school_administr 31
0.456 0.0129 0.531
0 0 0
2 lost_track 36
0.0149 0.000199 0.0219
0.445 0.0139 0.504
3 board_school 30
0.0143 0 0.0257
0.456 0.0141 0.49
4 young_man 46
0.0147 0 0.0689
0.46 0.00577 0.451
5 school_offici 254
0.513 0 0.00239
0.441 0 0.0438
6 high_school 53
0.0183 0 0
0.947 0 0.0348
7 school_year 0
0 0 0
0.965 0 0.0348
8 high_school 130
0.00119 0 0.00438
0.962 0 0.0326
9 good_friend 4
0 0 0.00637
0.958 0 0.0352
10 english_literatur 196
0.00338 0.000398 0.0193
0.944 0 0.033
11 short_stori 183
0.00299 0.000199 0.0376
0.924 0.000398 0.035
12 senior_year 49
0.00318 0 0.0129
0.919 0.000597 0.0643
13 child_left 314
0.00836 0 0.116
0.863 0.000199 0.0127
14 high_standard 12
0.00537 0 0.00318
0.871 0 0.121
15 parochi_school 99
0.0714 0 0.0139
0.875 0 0.0398
16 public_school_system 10
0.0527 0 0
0.946 0 0.00119
17 earli_life 49
0.000995 0 0
0.999 0 0.000398
0.999 0 0.000199
19 good_teacher 51
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
20 merit_pai 76
0.000398 0 0
1 0 0
21 safe_haven 36
0.00119 0 0.00219
0.997 0 0
22 arm_forc 76
0.000398 0 0
0.997 0 0.00219
23 great_countri 42
0.00318 0 0
0.997 0 0
24 educ_system 6
0 0 0
1 0 0
25 global_economi 42
0.000199 0 0
1 0 0
26 studi_show 11
0 0 0
1 0 0
27 african_american 8
0.000199 0 0
1 0 0
28 high_school 2
0 0 0
1 0 0
29 industri_nation 25
0.000199 0 0
1 0 0
30 high_school 65
0.000398 0 0.0103
0.989 0 0
31 heart_attack 174
0.0798 0 0.58
0.333 0 0.00736
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 135