… meaning that the proportions of words represented by the various categories as shown in the main LIWC output are potentially inaccurate.
We also note that precision is very low in a few categories (e.g. ‘aux verbs’ at 49.6%, which could easily be rectified by part of speech tagging).
We also note that precision is very low in a few categories (e.g. ‘aux verbs’ at 49.6%, which could easily be rectified by part of speech tagging).
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We hope that it will encourage others who want to use LIWC to first check the precision and recall for themselves on their data and for their questions before using it.