Stata/Natural Language Processing

Reading a text file If lines are short (less than the 244 string characters), one can use insheet. This command will read the text file into Stata's memory. . insheet using toto.txt, clear String functions First have a look at the list of string functions already included in Stata. . h string functions Regular Expressions Stata includes commands for regular expressions regexm(), regexr() and regexs(). Regular Expression in Stata on UCLA STATA Website Regular Expressions on STata website Wordscores Ken Benoit, Michael Laver and Will Lowe have developed wordscores, a set of Stata command which read textfiles, count the frequency of each word and compute some index of similarity between texts. Wordscore page