Measuring Ideological Proportions in Political Speeches

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
#	Cue term	Lag before term	Restart		∑Left	Center	∑Right
1	john_mccain	3		✓	0	0	1
1	john_mccain	3		✗	0	0	0
2	senat_obama	36		✓	0.0181	0	0.0816
2	senat_obama	36		✗	0.000398	0	0.9
3	same_time	215		✓	0	0	0.418
3	same_time	215		✗	0.000199	0	0.582
4	foreign_polici	25		✓	0.000199	0	0.0589
4	foreign_polici	25		✗	0	0	0.941
5	obama_campaign	19		✓	0.0736	0	0.0404
5	obama_campaign	19		✗	0.000597	0	0.885
6	north_america	3		✓	0.0103	0	0.00756
6	north_america	3		✗	0.0738	0	0.908
7	american_economi	34		✓	0.816	0	0.00697
7	american_economi	34		✗	0.0818	0	0.0955
8	creat_job	12		✓	0.111	0	0
8	creat_job	12		✗	0.885	0	0.00378
9	rise_cost	10		✓	0.0123	0	0
9	rise_cost	10		✗	0.988	0	0
10	energi_independ	30		✓	0.0374	0	0.00139
10	energi_independ	30		✗	0.961	0	0
11	thousand_dollar	33		✓	0.0388	0	0.000995
11	thousand_dollar	33		✗	0.96	0	0
12	taxi_driver	34		✓	0.0426	0	0.000796
12	taxi_driver	34		✗	0.956	0	0.000597
13	senat_obama	60		✓	0.0507	0	0.32
13	senat_obama	60		✗	0.628	0	0.00159
14	rais_price	18		✓	0.0141	0	0.111
14	rais_price	18		✗	0.565	0.00279	0.307
15	energi_product	42		✓	0.039	0	0.112
15	energi_product	42		✗	0.449	0.000199	0.4
16	american_peopl	78		✓	0.0259	0	0.267
16	american_peopl	78		✗	0.211	0	0.497
17	clean_coal	45		✓	0.0171	0	0.0736
17	clean_coal	45		✗	0.176	0	0.733
18	creat_job	4		✓	0.000995	0	0.00418
18	creat_job	4		✗	0.188	0	0.806
19	nuclear_power_plant	15		✓	0.00219	0	0.0589
19	nuclear_power_plant	15		✗	0.128	0	0.811
20	senat_obama	4		✓	0.000398	0	0.0263
20	senat_obama	4		✗	0.104	0	0.869
21	nuclear_power	6		✓	0	0	0.0448
21	nuclear_power	6		✗	0.0605	0	0.895
22	nuclear_energi	21		✓	0.000995	0	0.03
22	nuclear_energi	21		✗	0.0302	0.000199	0.939
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