…ser window into some text editing tools. Fixes an issue while highlighting search terms in the List of Documents if the document name contains specific special characters. Fixes an issue while importing variables from Excel files where MAXQDA did not recognize existing integer variables if the variable description contained more than the limit of 63 characters. Fixes an issue while sorting variables in various variable selection dialogues. They ar…
Managing Dictionaries
…ht.” Using wildcards in search items You can use wildcards to broaden your search terms: ? – replaces a single character (e.g., “wom?n” will match “woman” and “women”). * – replaces one or more characters (e.g., “inter*” will match “interest”, “internal”, “interactive”). Wildcards are considered in dictionary-based content analysis. For example, if you enter “i*tion” as your search item with the “Whole word” option enabled, MAXDictio will count wo…
Lexical Search
…: https://medium.com/factory-mind/regex-tutorial-a-simple-cheatsheet-by-examples-649dc1c3f285 Please note: There are several technical implementations of regular expressions. Perl-compatible expressions (PCRE) are implemented in MAXQDA. Saving search terms Searches can be saved, i.e. you won’t have to enter the search terms again. Click Save, enter the name of the saved scan, and then click Save again. Search files are saved with the extension .SE…
The Lexical Search: Options in the Dialog Window
…the left pane is empty. Click New to enter the word or string (called the “search string”) that you want to find. Hint: Please be aware that hyphenation can not be recognized in PDF-documents. Search strings may consist of one word, multiple words, or only of a part of a word. For instance, you can search for “Tom Hanks,” “Hanks,” or only “anks.” Quotation marks are not necessary if a search string consists of more than one word. Tip: If you highl…
Lexical Search
…: https://medium.com/factory-mind/regex-tutorial-a-simple-cheatsheet-by-examples-649dc1c3f285 Please note: There are several technical implementations of regular expressions. Perl-compatible expressions (PCRE) are implemented in MAXQDA. Saving search terms Searches can be saved, i.e. you won’t have to enter the search terms again. Click Save, enter the name of the saved scan, and then click Save again. Search files are saved with the extension .SE…
Tip of the Month: Linguistics Research with Software – MAXQDA Tips & Tricks
…hole words if you want your research results to be exactly the same as the search string you input. Otherwise, the search results will show all words that include the search string. For example, if you want to look for the pronoun “I”, you should choose this option, or the search results will include all words that include the letter “i”. If you make your search string case-sensitive, you can specifically look for words with capitalized letters. Y…
Basic Terms
…d again for other projects. For quantitative content analysis, the dictionary presents a classification scheme on the basis of which the frequency of the categories is determined. Search item A string of characters, one or more words, which are attached to a category in a dictionary….
Text Search
…https://medium.com/factory-mind/regex-tutorial-a-simple-cheatsheet-by-examples-649dc1c3f285 Please note: There are several technical implementations of regular expressions. Perl-compatible expressions (PCRE) are implemented in MAXQDA. Saving search terms Searches can be saved, i.e., you won’t have to enter the search terms again. Click Save, enter the name of the saved scan, and then click Save again. Search files are saved with the extension .SE…
Autocode Search Results
…In the ensuing options window, you can set the range before and after the search term as well as the weight, which is established during the coding process. In the “PDF documents” section, you can set whether only the respective search result should be coded, or whether additional words or sentences before and after the search results should be coded as well. Due to the different handling of text layers in PDF documents, using the option “Sentenc…
MAXQDA Products
…to parts of the data. Export memos or transform memos into documents. Text Search Search for multipe search strings across documents or memos. Search for synonyms. Search for word combinations that can be connected with AND/OR/NOT search operators. Search with “regular expressions”. Explore Word or Code Occurrences Create interactive dashboards to explorer word or code occurrences. The dashboards visualize where in the data a word or code was used…
