AutoMap User’s Guide 2010 Kathleen M. Carley, Dave Columbus, Mike Bigrigg, and Frank Kunkel June 3, 2010 CMU-ISR-10-121 Institute for Software Research School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Center for the Computational Analysis of Social and Organization Systems CASOS technical report This report/document supersedes CMU-ISR-09-114 "AutoMap User’s Guide 2009", June 2009 This work is part of the Dynamics Networks project at the center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) of the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). For AutoMap, the geo-spatial generic location data extraction and link to gazateers was supported by ARO and ERDC-TEC W911NF0710317; the anaphora resolution, improved thesauri generation, semi-automated meta- network thesauri creation, and improved attribute extraction by the ARI W91WAW07C0063; the improved help and documentation, specialized nation thesauri by ARMY DAAD19-01C0065; the specialized indo-pak thesauri by the AFOSR through a MURI on Computational Modeling of Cultural Dimensions in Adversary Organizations with GMU FA9550-05-1-0388; the specific location based extraction by ONR N00014-06-1-0104; the refactoring into separate web-services and associated API's by ONR N00014-08-1-1223; API documentation by CTTSO HSCB; the improved scalability, handling multiple languages, and development of common thesauri by ONR N00014-08-1- 1186; the incorporation of machine learning for special thesauri by the IGERT in CASOS 9972762. Additional support was provided by Carley Technologies Inc. for thesauri, and the center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems at CMU. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Department of Defense, the Army Research Office, the Army Research Institute, the U.S. Army, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Sponsored Research, the National Science Foundation,or the US government. i Keywords: Semantic Network Analysis, Dynamic Network Analysis, Mental Modes, Social Networks, AutoMap i Abstract AutoMap is software for computer-assisted Network Text Analysis (NTA). NTA encodes the links among words in a text and constructs a network of the links words. AutoMap subsumes classical Content Analysis by analyzing the existence, frequencies, and covariance of terms and themes. ii iii Table of Contents AutoMap ...................................................................................................... 1 AutoMap 3 Overview ................................................................................... 1 An Overview ........................................................................................... 1 Network Text Analysis (NTA) ..................................................................... 2 Social Network Analysis (SNA) .................................................................. 2 Semantic Network Analysis ....................................................................... 3 Dynamic Network Analysis ........................................................................ 3 Resources ................................................................................................... 4 Description ............................................................................................. 4 Glossary ...................................................................................................... 4 GUI Quickstart .......................................................................................... 11 Description ........................................................................................... 12 The User Interface Overview ................................................................... 12 Before You Begin ................................................................................... 14 Creating Concept & Union Concept Lists ................................................... 15 Description ........................................................................................... 15 Using Delete Lists .................................................................................. 16 Description ........................................................................................... 16 Using a Generalization Thesaurus ............................................................ 17 Description ........................................................................................... 17 Content Analysis to Semantic Network ..................................................... 18 Description ........................................................................................... 18 Interface Details ....................................................................................... 21 The Pull Down Menu .............................................................................. 21 Quick Launch Buttons ............................................................................ 22 File Navigation Buttons .......................................................................... 23 Preprocess Order Window ....................................................................... 23 Filename Box ........................................................................................ 23 Text Display Window ............................................................................. 23 Message Window ................................................................................... 23 Script Quickstart ....................................................................................... 23 Description ........................................................................................... 24 Before You Begin ................................................................................... 24 iv Running AutoMap Script ......................................................................... 25 Script name .......................................................................................... 26 Pathways (relative and absolute) ............................................................. 26 Tag Syntax in AM3Script ........................................................................ 26 Output Directory syntax (TempWorkspace) ............................................... 27 AM3Script Tags Details ............................................................................. 27 AutoMap 3 Preprocessing Tags ................................................................ 28 Simple Tutorials ........................................................................................ 40 Setting Up and Using Thesauri ................................................................ 40 Description ........................................................................................... 40 >Setting Up and Using Delete Lists .......................................................... 42 Description ........................................................................................... 42 Setting up and Running a Script .............................................................. 43 Description ........................................................................................... 43 Non-English Fonts ..................................................................................... 45 Description ........................................................................................... 45 Font Web Sites ..................................................................................... 45 Installation ........................................................................................... 46 Resources ............................................................................................ 46 Content Section ......................................................................................... 46 Content ..................................................................................................... 46 Anaphora .................................................................................................. 47 Description ........................................................................................... 47 Definition of Anaphora ........................................................................... 47 What is NOT an anaphora ....................................................................... 48 Bi-Grams ................................................................................................... 48 Description ........................................................................................... 48 Definitions ............................................................................................ 48 The Most Common BiGram ..................................................................... 49 Changes in Meaning ............................................................................... 49 Threshold in regards to BiGrams .............................................................. 49 Bi-Gram Chart ...................................................................................... 51 Concept Lists............................................................................................. 52 Description ........................................................................................... 52 Data Selection ..........................................................................................