Computer parsing and analysis of observational narratives
Evie McClintock, Anthony J. Pepitone · Systems Research and Behavioral Science · 1980
NARRATIV is a computer system for analyzing observational narratives entered in modified English form. Parsing programs extract the parts of the speech from each sentence and reassign them to categories (e.g., actor, action, recipient) defined by the investigator. The result is an event-by-category matrix, in which each row represents a parsed sentence, each column a category, and each cell contains the word from the original narrative. This matrix can be recoded, expanded, or partitioned to produce frequency distribution or cross-tabulations of values in the categories.