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Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) is the gold standard in extracting social and psychological insights from language data. Here's LIWCing at you, kid. https://www.liwc.app
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New blog post, and (I think?) my first one directly about LIWC-related things. More challenges, and thoughts, about sailing on the choppy seas of interdisciplinary scholarship. www.pancakes.wtf/20250110/lan...
Language Analysis Across Contexts: A Dialogue Between Forensic Linguistics and Psychology — A Rejoinder to Hunter & Grant (2025) – Pancakes? WTF?
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January 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Check out Steven’s excellent review of an extremely important topic: Views from lots of perspectives are going to be crucial in how we handle this moment in history!
Excited to share my 1st grad school preprint w/ @eriknook.bsky.social
We review how AI is used in mental health research & treatment (from detecting symptoms w/ language to powering therapy chatbots) and highlight ethical/safety issues w/ rapidly bringing AI into this space.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Happy summer, everyone! 🌞😎🌴 LIWC-22 has been updated - v1.12.0. New features include the ability to run the MEM from front-to-back, providing you with statistically-derived themes from your corpus of text, and words clouds for each theme! Smaller updates include better emoji handling & bug fixes.🥳
August 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
New Year, new update for LIWC-22! Several major improvements, including more features for better accessibility (high-contrast mode, screenreader accessibility), faster launch times, and lots of little quality-of-life improvements and minor bug fixes, particularly for the CLI. Happy 2025!
January 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Hey, it's finally up! I'm hiring a postdoctoral researcher for our new and growing computational social science lab! If you're passionate about Computational Social Science, Social/Personality Psychology, and AI/NLP, don't be shy — apply! jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/28227
Research Associate
The Boyd Computational Social Science Lab is seeking a highly motivated post-doctoral scientist who is passionate about exploring the intersection of computational methods (e.g., machine learning, nat...
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November 22, 2024 at 4:37 PM
Major LIWC-22 update released today! Boatloads of updates and new features. Key changes include several new ways for LIWC-22 to run on HPC/cluster computing environments, multilingual CLI support, and new dictionary evaluation features. Hooray!
October 14, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Today is a big day — we've just released a *big* update to LIWC-22, with lots of neat little additions and a couple of big additions to v1.8.0. Now, you can compare word frequencies, easily analyze Japanese-language texts with J-LIWC2015, and more! See: liwc.app/help/release...
LIWC — Release Notes
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February 29, 2024 at 12:41 AM