Barack Obama

This speech titled 2007.09.12 originally had 4446 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 107 cue terms and an average lag of 37.6. 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 month_ago 2
0.553 0.000199 0.446
0 0 0
2 year_ago 153
0.0151 0 0.731
0.0133 0 0.24
3 presid_bush 7
0 0 0.0452
0.00139 0 0.953
4 bush_made 0
0.000199 0 0.000796
0.000796 0 0.998
5 unit_nation 7
0.00279 0 0.211
0 0 0.786
6 year_ago 23
0.00119 0 0.0175
0 0 0.981
7 saddam_hussein 14
0 0 0.00736
0 0 0.993
8 georg_bush 41
0 0 0.0173
0 0 0.983
9 al_qaeda 16
0 0 0.00617
0 0 0.994
10 nation_intellig 46
0.000199 0 0.0269
0 0 0.973
11 trillion_dollar 220
0.00179 0 0.98
0 0 0.0179
12 homeland_secur 9
0.0474 0 0.0326
0.00139 0 0.919
13 health_care 8
0.262 0.000597 0.3
0.046 0 0.391
14 nation_guard 60
0.00299 0 0.585
0.00517 0 0.407
15 west_point 20
0.000796 0 0.0442
0.00179 0 0.953
16 abu_ghraib 66
0.0225 0 0.039
0.00179 0 0.937
17 iraq_war 22
0.0675 0.000199 0.0143
0.0139 0 0.904
18 osama_bin 11
0.176 0 0.0129
0.0786 0 0.732
19 middl_east 44
0.0776 0 0.0537
0.188 0 0.681
20 polit_strategi 33
0.744 0 0.000398
0.208 0 0.0476
21 common_purpos 32
0.136 0 0
0.861 0 0.00318
22 foreign_polici 31
0.0533 0 0.124
0.82 0 0.00318
23 same_peopl 55
0.0547 0 0.34
0.485 0 0.12
24 middl_east 16
0.00995 0 0.0179
0.522 0 0.45
25 same_peopl 19
0.03 0 0.0316
0.508 0 0.43
26 sectarian_violenc 11
0.0193 0 0.0217
0.518 0 0.441
27 american_peopl 26
0.0659 0 0.088
0.409 0 0.437
28 civil_war 135
0.00478 0 0.534
0.0147 0 0.447
29 human_cost 38
0.000597 0 0.0249
0.0111 0 0.963
30 civil_war 19
0 0 0.0197
0.00199 0 0.978
31 saddam_hussein 8
0 0 0.00537
0.000398 0 0.994
32 civil_war 39
0.00239 0 0.0139
0.000398 0 0.983
33 highest_level 34
0.129 0.000199 0.531
0.000995 0 0.339
34 __NUM___month 14
0.191 0 0.0314
0.11 0 0.667
35 month_ago 0
0.00716 0 0.00199
0.3 0 0.691
36 year_ago 3
0.0181 0 0.049
0.294 0 0.639
37 ethnic_cleans 15
0.0533 0 0.0872
0.282 0 0.578
38 recent_report 27
0.00756 0 0.413
0.0193 0 0.56
39 govern_account_offic 3
0.00398 0 0.00557
0.0241 0 0.966
40 __NUM___degre 16
0.172 0 0.0117
0.0163 0 0.8
41 polit_decis 65
0.00537 0 0.415
0.00796 0 0.572
42 al_qaeda 4
0 0 0.0376
0.00279 0 0.96
43 make_progress 57
0.24 0 0.36
0.000199 0 0.399
44 iraqi_govern 3
0 0 0.247
0.00557 0 0.748
45 civil_war 67
0 0 0.0418
0 0 0.958
46 iraqi_govern 26
0 0 0.0135
0 0 0.986
47 al_qaeda 86
0 0 0.0364
0 0 0.964
48 polit_progress 30
0 0 0.0105
0 0 0.989
49 secur_forc 3
0 0 0.00179
0 0 0.998
50 foreign_polici 41
0.000597 0 0.0177
0 0 0.982
51 iraqi_govern 14
0 0 0.00816
0 0 0.992
52 civil_war 16
0 0 0.00537
0 0 0.995
53 prime_minist 8
0 0 0.00299
0 0 0.997
54 constitut_convent 56
0.0203 0.000199 0.0478
0 0 0.932
55 unit_nation 18
0.00557 0 0.0113
0.0169 0 0.966
56 central_role 4
0.0219 0 0.0167
0.0219 0 0.94
57 constitut_process 36
0.131 0.00617 0.0462
0.0239 0 0.793
58 local_elect 4
0.0607 0.000199 0.00358
0.146 0.00577 0.784
59 recent_histori 135
0.089 0 0.253
0.0533 0 0.605
60 unit_nation 25
0.00119 0 0.233
0.00657 0 0.759
61 nation_secur 0
0.000199 0 0.000796
0.00697 0 0.992
62 secur_council 0
0 0 0.00119
0.00617 0 0.993
63 al_qaeda 49
0 0 0.0253
0.000398 0 0.974
64 saudi_arabia 23
0 0 0.0107
0 0 0.989
65 financi_support 13
0.00159 0 0.00517
0 0 0.993
66 american_peopl 48
0.00876 0 0.0247
0.000796 0 0.966
67 nuclear_program 70
0.000398 0 0.0388
0.000398 0 0.96
68 vice_presid 32
0.0251 0 0.0247
0.000796 0 0.949
69 al_qaeda 8
0 0 0.0299
0.000199 0 0.97
70 georg_bush 37
0 0 0.0316
0 0 0.968
71 dick_chenei 2
0 0 0.00279
0 0 0.997
72 american_peopl 10
0.00159 0 0.00517
0 0 0.993
73 georg_bush 20
0.000199 0 0.0147
0 0 0.985
74 persian_gulf 96
0.0864 0 0.0633
0 0 0.85
75 civil_war 99
0.00259 0 0.132
0.00716 0 0.859
76 presid_bush 17
0.00338 0 0.0155
0.00816 0 0.973
77 neighbor_countri 99
0.987 0 0.000199
0.00219 0 0.0107
78 mass_movement 2
0.000995 0 0
0.988 0 0.0105
79 middl_east 11
0.00418 0 0.000398
0.985 0 0.00995
80 strateg_interest 9
0.00776 0 0
0.986 0 0.00577
81 moral_oblig 4
0.00279 0 0.000398
0.992 0 0.00458
82 work_group 85
0.114 0 0.00915
0.872 0 0.00478
83 unit_nation 16
0.0119 0 0.00438
0.971 0 0.0129
84 state_depart 2
0.00776 0 0
0.978 0 0.0139
85 __MONEY___million 5
0.00995 0 0.000995
0.978 0 0.0115
86 __MONEY___billion 27
0.0141 0 0.00179
0.973 0 0.0109
87 social_servic 10
0.00756 0 0
0.983 0 0.00975
88 neighbor_countri 4
0.00159 0 0.000199
0.988 0 0.00975
89 war_crime 50
0.0412 0 0.0233
0.931 0 0.00458
90 moral_oblig 256
0.206 0 0.0909
0.697 0 0.00617
91 georg_bush 68
0.0125 0 0.645
0.262 0 0.08
92 vietnam_war 83
0.157 0.000398 0.235
0.241 0 0.367
93 __NUM___elect 7
0.00796 0 0.00159
0.396 0.000398 0.594
94 islam_world 156
0.00657 0 0.428
0.00637 0 0.559
95 young_peopl 7
0.143 0 0.144
0.00876 0 0.705
96 econom_develop 14
0.000199 0 0.157
0.00259 0 0.84
97 islam_world 11
0.000597 0 0.00577
0.00179 0 0.992
98 __NUM___centuri 28
0.0543 0 0.826
0.00139 0 0.118
99 nuclear_weapon 5
0.0177 0 0.0724
0.0446 0 0.865
100 american_peopl 63
0.608 0 0.0498
0.0388 0 0.303
101 move_forward 23
0.364 0 0.0549
0.548 0 0.0338
102 american_peopl 11
0.0615 0 0.0177
0.846 0 0.0744
103 health_care 31
0.148 0 0.0643
0.736 0 0.0513
104 energi_polici 6
0.0143 0 0.0225
0.852 0 0.111
105 georg_bush 154
0.0446 0 0.786
0.0838 0 0.0852
106 martin_luther_king 41
0.847 0.000199 0.0125
0.0844 0 0.0559
107 foreign_polici 193
0.489 0 0.0854
0.409 0 0.0171
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