Training and Sample Data

General Training Material

• Training Video
• Basic Training Sheet
• User's Guide
• Map Post Processor User's Guide
• CompareMap User's Guide

Examples for Extraction of Social Structure

1. Power Outage

• Input Texts
  References:
  sweden.txt: Story from BBC NEWS, Published: 2003/09/23 © BBC MMIII , Title: Danish capital loses power
  usa.txt: Story from CNN, Thursday, August 14, 2003, Title: Major power outage hits New York, other large cities
  wikipedia.txt: Story from Netcraft, February 22, 2005 Title: Power Outage Knocks Wikipedia Offline
  (These sample texts were shortened and reorganized for demonstration purposes. )
• Pre-Processing Material
• Coding Procedure
• Output Output Files

2. Covert Network

• Input Texts
  Reference: Anonymous. (2004, March 26). Clarke's Not Blind. National Review Online. (This sample text was shortened and reorganized for demonstration purposes.)
• Pre-Processing Material
• Coding Procedure
• Output Files

Pre-Processing Material

Most of this materail is also included in the AutoMap installer (look for it in the utilities folder under the directory where you insralled AutoMap)

• Delete Lists
  • extensive_list.txt
  • punctuation_delete_list.txt
  • small_list.txt
• Generalization Thesauri:
  • country_generalization_thesaurus.txt
  • english_abbreviations_generalization_thesaurus.txt
  • english_contractions_generalization_thesaurus.txt
• Meta-Matrix Thesauri
  • countries_meta_matrix_thesaurus.txt
• For Map Post Processor:
  • attribute_interpretation_thesaurus.txt