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This speech titled 2008.01.28 originally had 881 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 36 cue terms and an average lag of 21.3. 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 american_peopl 9
✓
0.85 0 0.15
✗
0 0 0
2 statu_quo 55
✓
0.33 0 0.0458
✗
0.581 0 0.0432
3 make_progress 8
✓
0.0446 0 0.0279
✗
0.848 0 0.0798
4 ordinari_american 2
✓
0.0125 0 0.0569
✗
0.824 0 0.106
5 american_peopl 14
✓
0.033 0 0.412
✗
0.393 0 0.162
6 presid_bush 10
✓
0.00498 0 0.165
✗
0.265 0 0.566
7 special_interest 9
✓
0.034 0 0.0151
✗
0.25 0 0.701
8 tax_cut 22
✓
0.0115 0.0109 0.5
✗
0.00697 0 0.471
9 econom_hardship 17
✓
0.0273 0.00358 0.112
✗
0.0151 0.0109 0.831
10 tax_cut 10
✓
0.000398 0.000796 0.285
✗
0.00597 0.0119 0.696
11 middl_class 18
✓
0.00119 0 0.245
✗
0 0.00796 0.746
12 tax_cut 1
✓
0 0 0.0107
✗
0.000398 0.00736 0.981
13 stimulu_plan 19
✓
0 0 0.0868
✗
0 0 0.913
14 unemploy_insur 18
✓
0 0 0.00697
✗
0 0 0.993
15 georg_bush 7
✓
0 0 0.00418
✗
0 0 0.996
16 financi_institut 7
✓
0 0 0.00199
✗
0 0 0.998
17 run_amok 1
✓
0.000398 0 0.000597
✗
0 0 0.999
18 unemploy_insur 30
✓
0.000995 0 0.00816
✗
0.000199 0 0.991
19 presid_bush 23
✓
0.00259 0 0.525
✗
0.000199 0 0.472
20 iraqi_govern 55
✓
0.000398 0 0.39
✗
0 0 0.61
21 troop_home 66
✓
0.00995 0 0.119
✗
0.000199 0 0.87
22 al_qaeda 40
✓
0 0 0.0255
✗
0 0 0.975
23 militari_command 20
✓
0 0 0.00736
✗
0 0 0.993
24 american_peopl 14
✓
0 0 0.00657
✗
0 0 0.993
25 al_qaeda 6
✓
0 0 0.00219
✗
0 0 0.998
26 presid_bush 3
✓
0.00159 0 0.00299
✗
0 0 0.995
27 polit_oppon 53
✓
0.76 0.000398 0.194
✗
0.00159 0 0.0446
28 solv_problem 8
✓
0.00955 0 0.234
✗
0.6 0 0.157
29 wall_street 5
✓
0.0153 0 0.614
✗
0.00358 0 0.367
30 main_street 3
✓
0.00279 0 0.00438
✗
0.0179 0 0.975
31 common_sens 46
✓
0.335 0 0.0838
✗
0.0137 0 0.568
32 american_peopl 19
✓
0.136 0 0.0161
✗
0.319 0 0.53
33 health_care 7
✓
0.0585 0 0.00577
✗
0.439 0 0.497
34 decent_wage 2
✓
0.0113 0 0.000995
✗
0.492 0 0.496
35 medic_bill 23
✓
0.0738 0 0.0109
✗
0.475 0 0.44
36 common_purpos 129
✓
0.544 0 0.00279
✗
0.443 0 0.0101
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 30