Lexicométrie pour l'analyse qualitative : Pourquoi et comment résoudre le paradoxe ?
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Using text statistics for qualitative analysis is surely a paradox – counting words in an approach where “numbers doesn’t count". Hence, we were stunned by the repeated expectation of text mining features from the users of our qualitative analysis platform. Reluctant at first to methodological hybridizations that could be seen as flawed, we then had to admit that even the founders of qualitative analysis envisioned qualitative ways to use statistics. Counts cannot be regarded as proofs by qualitative analyzers, but as clues for an interpretation, as incentives to look closer at the materials. To achieve this goal, we designed a new visualization of text statistics, displayed in the text without any numbers nor tables.
Using text statistics for qualitative analysis is surely a paradox-counting words in an approach where "numbers doesn't count". Hence, we were stunned by the repeated expectation of text mining features from the users of our qualitative analysis platform. Reluctant at first to methodological hybridizations that could be seen as flawed, we then had to admit that even the founders of qualitative analysis envisioned qualitative ways to use statistics. Counts cannot be regarded as proofs by qualitative analyzers, but as clues for an interpretation, as incentives to look closer at the materials. To achieve this goal, we designed a new visualization of text statistics, displayed in the text without any numbers nor tables. Résumé Pour la recherche qualitative, les nombres ne comptent pas. Dans une telle démarche, faire appel à la sta-tistique textuelle devrait relever du paradoxe. Nous avons pourtant décidé d'intégrer de tels comptages dans la plateforme d'analyse qualitative que nous concevons. L'enjeu était d'assigner une fonction heu-ristique (et non plus probatoire) aux comptages, afin de les mettre au service de la perspective initiale, sans la dévoyer. Pour le qualitativiste, les mots rares, les spécificités et les segments répétés sont autant de pistes d'interprétation. Restait à trouver un mode de visualisation, sans tableaux ni chiffres, adapté à une approche visant davantage à l'immersion dans les textes qu'à leur objectivation.
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