What does MAXDictio offer?

MAXQDA users have repeatedly asked for a tool that would allow them to create an index of the words used in a text, so that they have access to an additional explorative aid for the evaluation of the text. Such a dictionary and content analysis module would make it easy to explore the vocabulary used in a text as well as to find out which words can be found in which texts or text passages. It would also make the differences between the vocabulary of the various texts within one project visible.

Besides the vocabulary functions, the MAXDictio module offers a number of techniques which originate from the area of classical quantitative content analysis. MAXDictio was not intended to be a competitive software product for quantitative content analysis, but rather it aims to utilize these techniques for qualitative data analysis and provide these as an additional set of analysis methods in a manageable form.

More precisely, MAXDictio provides following functions:

q Word frequencies in the whole text or in marked passages

q Word frequencies in document groups or in document sets which have been put together based on textual criteria

q Free definition of text units (whereby these may overlap)

q Editing texts and assigning them to text units is possible throughout the whole process

q Exportability of the frequency analysis outcomes to MS Office programs (such as Excel or Word) and to SPSS, also by using the Windows clipboard

q Index of selected words of one or more texts

q Possibility to jump from each index entry to the underlying text passage

q Limitation of the analysis by go-lists (containing a list of words which should be analyzed exclusively) and stop lists (which contain a list of those words that should be blocked for analysis)

q Selective analysis by selected criteria, such as the value of socio-demographic variables, filtering by numeric data

q Creation of word-based dictionaries, basic dictionaries as well as hierarchical

q Transfer of words from the word frequency table into the dictionary and into the stop list

q Export of dictionaries to and from Microsoft Excel

q Import of previously used dictionaries

q Coding on the basis of word-based dictionaries

q Results of the coder as editable and sortable Excel-like table

q Further processing of the results in SPSS and Excel

q Creation of a validation file for verification of codes

q Total integration in the functionality of MAXQDA using convenient functions such as keyword-in-context or automatic coding of text passages

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