LemmaLoom

LemmaLoom is a qualitative data analysis application that is also grammar-aware. You can code passages just like you would in any other QDA-style application, but with LemmaLoom, you can interrogate those codings against…

LemmaLoom includes an example project called “Climate Debate”. You can import it to try out the application's tools. Most of this guide draws its examples from it. Its op-eds, columns, and speech are fiction, as are …

LemmaLoom keeps all of your work in projects. A project holds your documents and the codes, codings, memos, and links you add to them. The sets, groups, attributes, dictionaries, and saved queries you organize and analyz…

In LemmaLoom, work begins by ingesting the content of your material into the project itself. Files, web pages, and recordings are all imported as documents. Then reading, coding, and analysis take place the same way for …

The reader in LemmaLoom is the center pane in the main window that contains the text of your document. It is where you read your documents, conduct searches within the texts, select words and passages for coding or annot…

A lens annotates words in the reader according to their category. Examples of categories would be parts of speech and codes. The Word class lens, for instance, underlines all nouns in blue and all verbs in red, whereas t…

Coding labels what passages mean; this is done by assigning codes. Most studies start out with questions regarding documents, and codes are used to help answer those questions. Your codes comprise the codebook of your pr…

A typical study compares two parts of a project, such as activists' texts against skeptic texts, or one outlet against all others. LemmaLoom offers multiple ways to characterize the two parts. An attribute stores factual…

LemmaLoom can translate documents into other languages. When you translate a document, the translation will be kept as its own separate document, appearing under the original in your navigation sidebar. This new document…

The Text tab in the inspector describes the active document as a whole. This tab has three facets. Overview shows stats for your document, including counts of sentences and words, readability figures, vocabulary, sentenc…

Grammar analysis is shown in the Grammar tab of the inspector, which contains all grammar analysis results from your active document. The tab is broken up into seven facets. Most of these facets are concerned with gramma…

A word sketch provides a summary of the grammatical context surrounding a word. In doing so, it gives you the words that occur around yours in a grammatical sense, such as the adjectives used to describe your word, or pe…

Once you have coded enough passages in your documents, you can take a look at the distribution of codes, and the ways in which groups of documents may use your codes differently. LemmaLoom’s views count occurrences of …

Word sketches illustrate grammatical behaviors of a word in a document, set, or project. However, Sketch Space takes the sketch of a word further by splitting its relations by the codes that cover each occurrence, or, in…

A query searches through your documents to find elements that satisfy certain criteria you provide, and shows them as a list or as numbers. These elements may be words, phrases, sentences, coded passages, memos, speaker …

The Find, Pattern, and Where conditions determine what hits a query will collect, whereas the Show condition decides what you see of them. It could list out the hits, count them, run statistical tests comparing groups of…

Often times, questions posed in a study relate more broadly to combinations of words than to individual words. For instance, you may be interested in learning how the activists referred to people and plans. By constructi…

Once a query has found something useful in your documents, you may wish to turn it into a lens, which annotates its hits whenever you are viewing a document. Queries may also be saved as a custom analyzer that operates d…

A dictionary is a collection of words and phrases sorted by category. LemmaLoom identifies every place in your documents these terms appear, calculates counts of each category, and can also annotate them in the reader. D…

A custom analyzer is a short program in JavaScript. The analyzer reads the grammar analysis of a document and looks for the passages you want. Write the script in Window ▸ Analyzers, and LemmaLoom executes it during in…

As LemmaLoom receives a document into your project, it automatically processes the document by indexing it, provided that your document is in English, German, or Chinese, unless you choose otherwise as you import it. The…

Projects are stored in the LemmaLoom library on your macOS device (refer to Where work is stored in Chapter 2, Getting Started). Work can be taken out of the library or put into the library via exporting or importing res…

Changes made via LemmaLoom are immediately saved upon making the modification, and the history of said modifications is tracked accordingly. Undoing these changes can be done via Edit ▸ Undo, one at a time, working bac…

The Settings refer to options that are applicable throughout the entire LemmaLoom application. This includes the theme, language of the interface, transcription model, personal exclusion patterns, reader presentation, an…

The tables below list every keyboard shortcut in LemmaLoom, separated by menu. Where exactly each of these shortcuts applies is also noted.

There are three windows for looking up a term in LemmaLoom, contacting the developer, and citing LemmaLoom. Two of them can be found in the Help menu and one in the LemmaLoom menu:

This appendix compiles the metrics shown throughout LemmaLoom, such as the readability metrics in the Text tab in the inspector, and the p-value resulting from comparing the texts produced by the activists and the skepti…