WordStat 5.1 Computer Assisted Text Analysis

v5.1 - click here for information on this version 5.1

V5.0.1

• Fixed! Some items with wilcards could be ignored when the dictionary contained items starting with a wildcard.
• Fixed! Swapping rows and columns in bar charts or line charts caused an error message when closing the chart window.

v5.0 - click here for information on this version 5.0

v4.0.22

• Fixed! Exportation of keyword frequencies was not accurate when more than one dependent variable were selected.

v4.0.21

• New! Speed optimization for large dictionaries with overlaping items.

v4.0.20

• New! Miscellaneous small improvements and bug fixes.

v4.0.18

• New! The document conversion wizard can now append records to an existing database.
• Fixed! Longer versions of phrases now have precedence over shorter ones (example: if two phrases 'GRAND_PRIZE' and 'GRAND_PRIZE_WINNER' are included in a dictionary, "grand_prize" will not be coded when those two words are part of the longer phrase "grand prize winner").

v4.0.17

• Changed! The computation method for the chi-square has been changed. The chi-square value computed on case occurrences (present vs absent) is no longer based on the one-sample chi-square test but uses the standard two sample chi-square test. However, the one sample chi-square test is still used for assessing the difference between keyword frequencies.

v4.0.16

• Fixed! The phrase finder was unable to properly count phrases containing hyphens and apostrophes.

v4.0.15

• New! Added new export file formats (tab and comma separated values, html and Excel).
• New! The document conversion wizard can now store extracted text into document (RTF) variables.
• Improved! Speed of data exportation has been increased.
• Fixed! An error occured during the exportation of data to a new data file.

v4.0.14

• Improved! Width of drop down list boxes are now adjusted to support categories with long names.
• Improved! WordStat now remembers the last co-occurrence index used for clustering.
• Fixed! The undo feature in the drag and drop editor sometimes did not work properly.
• Fixed! Mixing words and subcategories at the same level sometimes causes words to be misclassified under subcategories.
• Fixed! The advance dictionary builder now automatically loads the active categorization dictionary when called from within WordStat.

v4.0.13

• Improved! New option in Phrases Finder allow one to remove phrases ending with excluded words (stop words) or phrases already in the categorization dictionary.
• Fixed! Some phrases in dictionaries were not recognized when lemmatization was enabled.
• Fixed! KWIC list of user defined phrases sometimes did not work properly.

v4.0.12

• Improved! Support for non-ANSI character sets (Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew, etc.). Note: Windows regional settings must be adjusted to properly display those character sets.

v4.0.11

• Improved! Support comparison of text found in different QDA Miner codes.
• Improved! Faster display of KWIC list and reports on very large documents.
• Improved! Faster importation of very large documents.
• New! A new button has been added on the Options page to automatically check for updates.
• Fixed! Search and replace on RTF documents did not work properly.
• Fixed! An application error occurred on some system when displaying 2D concept maps.

To update to the latest version (for version 4.x users only)

Download WordStat 4.0 update and install it over your existing version. If you are a registered user of WordStat 4.0, the program will register automatically.