Barack Obama

This speech titled 2008.05.12 originally had 2906 tokens. In its cue-lag representation, it has 65 cue terms and an average lag of 40.8. 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 west_virginia 63
0.971 0 0.0293
0 0 0
2 dinner_tabl 86
0.213 0 0.00139
0.784 0 0.00119
3 west_virginia 54
0.105 0 0.00517
0.888 0 0.000995
4 senat_clinton 4
0.00716 0 0.00219
0.986 0 0.00478
5 pearl_harbor 70
0.433 0 0.00199
0.564 0 0.000398
6 assembl_line 15
0.0949 0 0.00259
0.902 0 0
7 gi_bill 32
0.146 0 0
0.854 0 0
8 pearl_harbor 56
0.157 0 0.000398
0.843 0 0
9 young_men 16
0.0354 0 0.000199
0.964 0 0.000199
10 campaign_trail 5
0.0312 0 0.00239
0.966 0 0.000199
11 fellow_citizen 256
0.529 0 0.00756
0.463 0 0.000199
12 american_patriot 14
0.0515 0 0.00199
0.941 0 0.00517
13 young_men 117
0.245 0 0.0137
0.738 0 0.00299
14 govern_action 55
0.261 0.000199 0.00677
0.723 0 0.00896
15 same_time 14
0.555 0 0.00796
0.433 0 0.00398
16 memori_dai 28
0.144 0 0.0553
0.795 0 0.00557
17 world_war 51
0.108 0.000199 0.0776
0.788 0 0.0257
18 fallen_short 33
0.176 0 0
0.824 0 0
19 cardboard_box 34
0.0155 0 0
0.984 0 0
20 street_corner 3
0.00139 0 0
0.999 0 0
21 long_line 25
0.0225 0 0.00219
0.975 0 0
22 week_ago 20
0.903 0 0.0746
0.0207 0 0.00119
23 world_war_ii 8
0.12 0 0
0.876 0 0.00398
24 south_carolina 4
0.0199 0 0
0.978 0 0.00219
25 unit_state 50
0.501 0 0.0746
0.424 0 0.000199
26 pass_law 160
0.802 0 0.00279
0.194 0 0.000398
27 red_tape 38
0.0217 0 0
0.978 0 0.000199
28 pass_law 30
0.0135 0 0
0.986 0 0
29 famili_member 3
0.00259 0 0
0.997 0 0
30 health_care 1
0.00299 0 0
0.997 0 0
31 famili_member 11
0.00617 0 0.000199
0.994 0 0
32 full_cost 111
0.0693 0 0
0.931 0 0
33 full_measur 9
0.00418 0 0
0.996 0 0
34 __NUM___centuri 23
0.0444 0 0.000995
0.955 0 0
35 red_tape 8
0.00517 0 0.000199
0.995 0 0
36 health_care 29
0.0378 0 0.000398
0.962 0 0
37 rural_area 10
0.00935 0 0
0.991 0 0
38 support_servic 70
0.0418 0 0
0.958 0 0
39 mental_health 80
0.0505 0 0
0.949 0 0
40 health_care 0
0.000398 0 0.000398
0.999 0 0
41 mental_health 93
0.0589 0 0
0.941 0 0
42 mental_health_profession 23
0.00955 0 0.000199
0.99 0 0
43 north_carolina 127
0.94 0.000995 0.0565
0.00219 0 0
44 unit_state 82
0.434 0 0.00915
0.554 0 0.00299
45 greatest_gener 18
0.104 0 0
0.896 0 0.000597
46 gi_bill 15
0.0969 0 0
0.903 0 0
47 __NUM___centuri 9
0.0509 0 0.000398
0.949 0 0
48 gi_bill 1
0.0123 0 0
0.988 0 0
49 jim_webb 16
0.0987 0.000199 0
0.901 0 0
50 presid_ronald 10
0.132 0.0627 0.0338
0.771 0.000199 0
51 ronald_reagan 0
0.00716 0.00199 0.00478
0.891 0.0629 0.0324
52 widespread_support 4
0.0364 0 0.00139
0.883 0.0539 0.0251
53 colleg_educ 18
0.141 0 0.000796
0.85 0.00119 0.00716
54 john_mccain 13
0.0396 0 0.0963
0.856 0 0.00776
55 colleg_educ 59
0.533 0 0
0.465 0 0.00139
56 american_dream 28
0.454 0 0.0153
0.53 0 0.000597
57 medic_center 78
0.289 0 0.0931
0.617 0 0.000796
58 young_men 3
0.0125 0 0.000199
0.895 0 0.0923
59 move_forward 42
0.848 0.000199 0.0802
0.0706 0 0.00139
60 unit_state 23
0.14 0 0.0147
0.802 0 0.043
61 arm_forc 1
0.00736 0 0.00219
0.934 0 0.0565
62 full_measur 110
0.224 0 0.000995
0.775 0 0.000199
63 abraham_lincoln 99
0.345 0 0.00617
0.649 0 0
64 god_bless 156
0.891 0 0.000199
0.108 0 0
65 unit_state 2
0.0165 0 0.00537
0.978 0 0.000199
__END_OF_SPEECH__ 2