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Version 3.1: Some errors were corrected, file names now can be as long as Windows allows (formerly 65 characters).
Version 3.0: contains two new modules: a category system manager that allows the interactive construction of a category system, and a vocabulary comparison module that allows multiple comparison of vocabularies, e.g. compare 5 word lists.
A free test version is available.
Version 2.0: The new version of TextQuest is a complete overhaul: the menus now automatically fit different screen resolutions, and a result menu was added. Instead of just browsing through the results, now an editor is invoked and allows direct change of the results files. A new feature are sorting routines, e.g. sorting word lists descending by frequency, so that the most frequent words occur on top of the list. TextQuest 2.0 requires either Windows XP or Windows 2000 (for the sorting).
Version 1.9: TextQuest´s selection on standardised category systems has been extended to 13 versions in different languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portugese). The category systems are Harvard IV (English and French), RID (English, German. French, Portugese), LIWC (English, German, Italian, and Spanish), HKW (German), news factors (German), DAW2003 (German).
The readability module now calculates the value of the Dale-Chall formula with Edgar Dale´s wordlist from 1983.
Tutorial: On the Sixth Conference on Social Science Methodology in Amsterdam (Netherlands) TextQuest is presented in a free tutorial. Date and time: Universiteit van Amsterdam (UVA) Roeterstraat 11) on August, 17th, 9.00 a.m. in room E-007 (HAL E).
Version 1.8: TextQuest now comes with standardised category systems. For English, Colin Martindale's RID (Regressive Imaginery Dictionary) and for German the HKW (Hamburger kommunikationssoziologisches Wörterbuch) are available.
Version 1.75: 6 new readability formula: another 6 readability formulas were added, for Spanish Spaulding's formula and an adaption for the SMOG-formula, also another adaption for French of the SMOG-formula. In the content analysis module the dialog of the interactive coding was redesigned and shows a much bigger context of the search pattern now.
Version 1.7: new input format: the sentence format. Textquest now splits a text into grammatical sentences automatically. This format is very useful for readability analyses (these require the sentence as a text unit). Abbrevations like Prof. Dr. etc. are recognised, a list of abbrevations can be extended.
Version 1.7: The readability module now computes 66 readability formulas for English, French, German, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, and Swedish. A good help for writers is that you can output too long words, too long and/or too complicated sentences, e.g. all words with more than 10 characters and all sentences with more than 20 words.
Version 1.6: CSV (comma separated values) files are now possible for the numeric results of a content analysis, also a script file for SimStat is generated. So the statistical analysis of the results is possible with powerful and reasonable priced software.
Version 1.5: coloured coding of the first 51 categories. Concordances, search entries in text unit and the file of coded text units of a content analysis are now generated as HTML-files. Your browser shows you the different colours of the coded text units and the search patterns in text unit.