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This speech titled 2008.07.22.interview_with_katie_couric_of_cbs_news originally had 2702 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 51 cue terms and an average lag of 46.6. 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 prime_minist 6
✓
0.00119 0 0.999
✗
0 0 0
2 gener_petraeu 44
✓
0 0 0.0784
✗
0 0 0.922
3 troop_home 114
✓
0 0 0.237
✗
0 0 0.763
4 joint_chief 17
✓
0 0 0.0314
✗
0 0 0.969
5 send_troop 56
✓
0 0 0.089
✗
0 0 0.911
6 prime_minist 26
✓
0 0 0.0366
✗
0 0 0.963
7 iraqi_militari 37
✓
0 0 0.0121
✗
0 0 0.988
8 gener_petraeu 54
✓
0 0 0.0655
✗
0 0 0.935
9 militari_leader 86
✓
0.000398 0 0.299
✗
0 0 0.701
10 gener_petraeu 10
✓
0 0 0.0872
✗
0 0 0.913
11 polit_pundit 21
✓
0 0 0.566
✗
0 0 0.434
12 harri_reid 10
✓
0.000199 0 0.0221
✗
0 0 0.978
13 al_qaeda 20
✓
0 0 0.0452
✗
0 0 0.955
14 senat_mccain 50
✓
0 0 0.129
✗
0 0 0.871
15 increas_number 9
✓
0.00179 0 0.0209
✗
0 0 0.977
16 gener_petraeu 111
✓
0 0 0.222
✗
0 0 0.778
17 young_american 10
✓
0 0 0.0241
✗
0 0 0.976
18 young_men 28
✓
0 0 0.0559
✗
0 0 0.944
✗
0 0 0.951
20 al_qaeda 30
✓
0 0 0.0404
✗
0 0 0.96
21 american_peopl 82
✓
0.0299 0 0.287
✗
0 0 0.683
22 energi_polici 155
✓
0.0533 0 0.295
✗
0.0135 0 0.638
23 unit_state 3
✓
0.000597 0 0.0261
✗
0.0575 0 0.916
24 al_qaeda 299
✓
0 0 0.753
✗
0 0 0.247
25 osama_bin_laden 27
✓
0 0 0.0894
✗
0 0 0.911
26 gener_petraeu 19
✓
0 0 0.0523
✗
0 0 0.948
27 great_challeng 25
✓
0.00856 0.000398 0.149
✗
0 0 0.842
28 long_time 147
✓
0.1 0 0.267
✗
0.00398 0 0.628
29 primari_campaign 189
✓
0.491 0 0.162
✗
0.071 0.000199 0.275
30 american_peopl 31
✓
0.00438 0 0.465
✗
0.136 0 0.394
31 town_hall_meet 25
✓
0.000199 0 0.191
✗
0.00159 0 0.807
32 american_todai 32
✓
0.0109 0 0.075
✗
0.00179 0 0.912
33 win_war 13
✓
0 0 0.0549
✗
0 0 0.945
34 gulf_war 18
✓
0 0 0.0418
✗
0 0 0.958
35 decis_make 22
✓
0.000199 0 0.0515
✗
0 0 0.948
36 make_process 0
✓
0 0 0.00279
✗
0 0 0.997
37 arm_servic_committe 9
✓
0 0 0.0235
✗
0 0 0.977
38 unit_state 12
✓
0 0 0.0245
✗
0 0 0.976
39 state_senat 0
✓
0 0 0.00199
✗
0 0 0.998
40 arm_servic_committe 5
✓
0 0 0.0127
✗
0 0 0.987
41 win_war 35
✓
0.000199 0 0.0754
✗
0 0 0.924
✗
0.000199 0 0.813
43 feel_secur 11
✓
0.000796 0 0.0211
✗
0.00139 0 0.977
44 independ_nation 8
✓
0.000398 0 0.0163
✗
0.00199 0 0.981
45 troop_home 21
✓
0 0 0.089
✗
0 0 0.911
46 al_qaeda 29
✓
0 0 0.04
✗
0 0 0.96
47 american_troop 87
✓
0.000398 0.000199 0.0754
✗
0 0 0.924
48 love_affair 41
✓
0.00458 0 0.172
✗
0.000199 0.000199 0.823
49 media_coverag 83
✓
0.00279 0.000199 0.628
✗
0.000199 0 0.369
50 town_hall_meet 94
✓
0 0 0.196
✗
0 0 0.804
51 john_mccain 15
✓
0 0 0.0316
✗
0 0 0.968
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