Quantitative Discourse Analysis Package (qdap) is an R package for computer assisted qualitative data analysis, particularly quantitative discourse analysis, transcript analysis and natural language processing. Qdap is installable from, and runs within, the R system.
Qdap is a tool for quantitative analysis of qualitative transcripts and therefore provides a bridge between quantitative and qualitative research approaches. It is designed for transcript analysis, but its features overlap with natural language processing and text mining.
Its features include: tools for the preparation of transcript data frequency counts of sentence types, words, sentences, turns of talk, syllables aggregation using grouping variables word extracting and visualization statistical analysis.
For higher level statistical analysis and visualization of text, qdap is integrated with R and offers integration with other R packages.
Alternatives KH Coder (Windows, Linux, macOS) for quantitative content analysis and text mining.
See also Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software
References
External links
qdap manual qdap developer website Text Mining First-step Report