Barack Obama

This speech titled 2007.11.20 originally had 4469 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 98 cue terms and an average lag of 42.1. 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 public_servic 16
0.999 0 0.00139
0 0 0
2 elementari_school 12
0.141 0 0.00498
0.854 0 0
3 year_ago 6
0.0517 0 0.0187
0.924 0 0.00517
4 challeng_face 20
0.262 0 0.0103
0.716 0 0.0113
5 educ_system 36
0.314 0 0.00119
0.685 0 0
6 small_child 72
0.335 0.000398 0.0257
0.639 0 0.000199
7 south_carolina 48
0.128 0 0
0.871 0 0.000398
8 south_side 3
0.0271 0 0
0.973 0 0.000199
9 same_job 54
0.975 0.000199 0.00219
0.0231 0 0
10 global_economi 53
0.269 0 0.00697
0.724 0 0.000398
11 wage_job 8
0.0553 0 0.00179
0.94 0 0.00299
12 high_school 64
0.174 0 0
0.826 0 0
13 dropout_rate 87
0.0625 0 0
0.938 0 0
14 industri_nation 3
0.00119 0 0
0.999 0 0
15 grade_level 32
0.0119 0 0
0.988 0 0
16 twenti_percent 28
0.0121 0 0.00577
0.982 0 0
17 incom_student 27
0.0143 0 0
0.985 0 0.000199
18 elementari_school 55
0.0277 0 0
0.972 0 0
19 thoma_jefferson 104
0.0362 0 0.0263
0.938 0 0
20 free_societi 11
0.00478 0 0
0.971 0 0.0245
21 public_school 22
0.0285 0 0
0.969 0 0.00239
22 high_school 27
0.182 0 0
0.818 0 0
23 world_war_ii 19
0.808 0 0.00318
0.189 0 0
24 gi_bill 22
0.125 0 0
0.875 0 0
25 fallen_short 5
0.0342 0 0
0.966 0 0
26 ordinari_american 28
0.0818 0 0.0103
0.908 0 0
27 unit_state 103
0.891 0 0.0681
0.0392 0 0.00159
28 american_centuri 33
0.176 0.0109 0.0145
0.766 0 0.0324
29 child_left 46
0.146 0 0.341
0.47 0 0.043
30 georg_bush 4
0.00219 0 0.0726
0.542 0 0.383
31 child_left 18
0.0259 0 0.00716
0.539 0 0.428
32 campaign_trail 5
0.462 0 0.0442
0.0752 0 0.419
33 year_ago 11
0.0414 0 0.0205
0.5 0 0.438
34 senat_clinton 27
0.0466 0 0.0237
0.507 0 0.422
35 achiev_gap 45
0.921 0 0.000199
0.0782 0 0.000796
36 rural_area 8
0.111 0 0
0.889 0 0
37 small_town 18
0.239 0 0
0.761 0 0
38 higher_standard 7
0.0115 0 0
0.988 0 0
39 child_left 11
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0 0
40 standard_test 104
0.0386 0 0
0.961 0 0
41 child_left 82
0.0245 0 0
0.976 0 0
42 special_educ 149
0.0629 0 0
0.937 0 0
43 educ_polici 7
0.00139 0 0
0.999 0 0
44 start_point 4
0.00139 0 0.000597
0.998 0 0
45 break_free 25
0.0464 0.000199 0.0724
0.88 0 0.000597
46 statu_quo 21
0.208 0 0.078
0.659 0 0.0543
47 feder_govern 97
0.359 0 0.425
0.121 0 0.0949
48 week_ago 30
0.281 0 0.0896
0.35 0 0.28
49 tax_credit 17
0.211 0 0.00657
0.553 0 0.23
50 commun_colleg 27
0.357 0 0
0.642 0 0.000398
51 earli_childhood 66
0.266 0 0
0.734 0 0
52 childhood_educ 0
0.000796 0 0
0.999 0 0
53 earli_childhood 10
0.00378 0 0
0.996 0 0
54 high_school 40
0.0167 0 0
0.983 0 0
55 attend_colleg 2
0.00358 0 0
0.996 0 0
56 welfar_roll 33
0.0257 0 0.00597
0.968 0 0
57 health_care_cost 3
0.00318 0 0.00318
0.988 0 0.00557
58 recent_year 7
0.00637 0 0.00995
0.975 0 0.00856
59 great_success 21
0.0121 0 0.000995
0.972 0 0.0151
60 studi_show 30
0.0227 0 0.000597
0.967 0 0.00935
61 state_senat 54
0.842 0 0.00279
0.154 0 0.000597
62 young_children 149
0.536 0.000199 0.0279
0.436 0 0.000597
63 head_start 6
0.0235 0 0.00557
0.962 0 0.00856
64 work_parent 52
0.033 0 0
0.967 0 0
65 child_care 21
0.00677 0 0
0.993 0 0
66 tax_credit 7
0.00259 0 0
0.997 0 0
67 import_factor 71
0.0241 0 0
0.976 0 0
68 colleg_educ 240
0.371 0 0.000597
0.629 0 0
69 children_live 285
0.429 0 0
0.571 0 0
70 test_score 53
0.0621 0 0.000199
0.938 0 0
71 school_district 12
0.00697 0 0
0.993 0 0
72 career_ladder 6
0.00119 0 0
0.999 0 0
73 school_board 130
0.0507 0 0.000199
0.949 0 0
74 nation_governor 82
0.0277 0 0
0.972 0 0
75 __NUM___centuri 38
0.0153 0 0
0.985 0 0
76 knowledg_economi 1
0.000995 0 0
0.999 0 0
77 stifl_innov 127
0.0595 0 0.0197
0.921 0 0
78 child_left 20
0.0223 0 0.000597
0.972 0 0.00498
79 time_spent 17
0.0159 0 0.0235
0.955 0 0.00537
80 nation_prioriti 30
0.0756 0.000796 0.0117
0.899 0 0.0129
81 same_thing 47
0.811 0 0.088
0.101 0 0.000597
82 south_carolina 48
0.179 0 0.000796
0.818 0 0.00239
83 __NUM___centuri 38
0.166 0 0.00617
0.826 0 0.00159
84 war_zone 21
0.0758 0 0.00159
0.921 0 0.00179
85 decad_ago 45
0.104 0 0
0.896 0 0
86 commun_organ 3
0.00259 0 0
0.997 0 0
87 south_side 6
0.00318 0 0
0.997 0 0
88 earli_educ 66
0.584 0 0.00756
0.408 0 0
89 educ_program 0
0.00259 0 0.00617
0.983 0 0.00776
90 south_side 92
0.458 0 0.000199
0.542 0 0
91 video_game 177
0.916 0 0.000597
0.0838 0 0
92 children_educ 10
0.0239 0 0
0.976 0 0
93 high_standard 10
0.00458 0 0
0.995 0 0
94 spend_time 5
0.136 0 0.000995
0.863 0 0
95 year_ago 17
0.519 0.000199 0.27
0.211 0 0.000995
96 great_challeng 67
0.169 0 0.113
0.54 0 0.178
97 __NUM___centuri 68
0.397 0 0.102
0.349 0 0.151
98 unit_state 80
0.465 0 0.113
0.352 0 0.0699
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