Genanew
by Greg
Siegle, 1994
Copyright
Greg Siegle and the University of Pittsburgh
Generates a list of
words balanced for valence, frequency, length, and arousal from the ANEW word list
distributed by the University of Florida
Run the executable from
a DOS or COMMAND prompt
This program
depends on having the ANEW.TXT
file from the University of Florida in the SAME directory with the
executable.
genanew #words
[YES/NO arousewords] [exclude filename] [pos]
#words - the total number of words you want in the list.
The program will
get as close as it can with a list balanced on valence and arousal (this will
be a multiple of 6 - with positive, negative, and neutral, high and low arousal
words). If #words is not specified, a list with 12 words is generated.
arouswords - whether or not high arousal words are included
You may elect no
high-arousal words by typing the word 'NO' after the #words.
exclude filename - optional file of words to not include
You may specify a
file of words to exclude as a third argument (specifying 0 is the same as not
entering a word file to exclude). The first line of the file of words to
exclude MUST be the number of words in the file.
pos - part of speech
IF you have an ANEW.txt file that is coded
for part of speech you may specify just 1 part of speech by typing it as a
fourth argument. Legal parts of speech include n (noun), v (verb), adj
(adjective), adv (adverb) prep (preposition), conj (conjunction)
So, sample command
might be
wordlist 16 NO 0
wordlist 16 NO 0 adj
which would
generate a list of 16 non-arousing positive, negative, and neutral words. If adj is specified, only adjectives would be generated.
modified 2000 to
use the ANEW word list
modified 2001 to
balance for arousal
modified 2001 to
disallow a word list
modified 2002 to
use words of only a given part of speech
The following
copyright notice is begrudgingly included for the sake of bureaucratic
completeness.
All included
software copyright (c) 1994 by Greg Siegle and the University of Pittsburgh.
Permission to use
this software is granted subject to the following restrictions and
understandings:
1) There is no
warrantee or statement that the operation of this software will be error free.
The authors and the University of Pittsburgh are under no obligation to provide
any services by way of maintenance, update or otherwise.
2) Any user of such
software agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the authors and the University
of Pittsburgh from all claims arising out of the use of this software or
arising out of any accident, injury or damage and from all costs, counsel fees,
and liabilities incurred in or about any such claim, action, or proceeding
brought thereon
3) As the
intervention is still experimental, Greg Siegle requests that he be consulted
on projects using the software.
4) Users are
requested to inform Greg Siegle of noteworthy uses of this software.
5) This software
may not be distributed without permission of Greg Siegle
Greg Siegle’s
contact information:
Greg
Siegle, Ph.D.
Director,
Program in Cognitive Affective Neuroscience
Western
Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
3811
O’Hara St
Pittsburgh,
PA 15213
Email:
gsiegle@pitt.edu