Weighted Referential Activity Dictionary (WRAD)

Weighted Referential Activity Dictionary (WRAD)

Copyright (C) 2014 Wilma Bucci and Bernard Maskit

Contact Information: Wilma Bucci: wbucci@optonline.net
Bernard Maskit: daap@optonline.net

Note: The Weighted Referential Activity Dictionary (WRAD) is protected
under copyright law and is not separately licensed.

This is the first public release of the Weighted Referential Activity Dictionary (WRAD).
The Weighted Referential Activity Dictionary (WRAD) is a list of words with
weights that is run using The Discourse Attributes Analysis Program (DAAP) to
yield a Referential Activity (RA) score for any natural language segment.
Additional information about the WRAD may be found at:

<https://sites.google.com/site/referentialprocess/dictionary-measures-and-
computer-programs/weighted-referential-activity-dictionary-wrad>

and in the paper:

Bucci, W. & Maskit, B. (2006). A weighted dictionary for Referential Activity.
In J.G. Shanahan, Y. Qu, & J. Wiebe (Eds.) Computing Attitude and Affect in
Text; Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer; pp. 49-60.

The above paper is the correct reference for citing the WRAD.

This Repository includes the following files:

README.md 
WRAD 

The Discourse Attributes Analysis Program (DAAP) may be obtained at the public
GitHub reposistory for the project: https://github.com/DAAP

Using the Weighted Referential Activity Dictionary (WRAD)

In order to use the dictionary:

1. Read the copyright block at the top of the dictionary file.
2. Remove the copyright block
3. Place the dictionary file in the Dic folder of your DAAP project
   consistent with the DAAP Operating Instructions.