#http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/wordscores/software.html

#[In STATA use control V to paste into the command line; control R to recall a previous command]

#Open STATA. On the command line.....

#Install wordscores
net install http://www.tcd.ie/Political_Science/wordscores/wordscores

#Change working directory to folder that contains texts
cd "C:\Users\John\Desktop\wordscoresdata"

#Convert texts to term frequency matrices
wordfreq reagan1981.txt reagan1988.txt clinton1993.txt clinton2000.txt bush2001.txt bush2008.txt obama2009.txt obama2015.txt

#Set reference document locations (can have multiple ref doc locations, but need at least two.)
setref treagan1981 20.0 tobama2015 0

#Define dimension (this is completely arbitrary)
wordscore conservatism

#Calculate conservatism score of speeches
textscore conservatism treagan1988 tclinton1993 tclinton2000 tbush2001 tbush2008 tobama2009



Results! 'Transformed Score is the estimated location of the speech 
on the conservation dimension where a higher value is more conservative'

Textscore v23-Jun-2009  (c) 2009 Kenneth Benoit
Dimension: CONSERVATISM
Transformed Score Method: Laver-Benoit-Garry

                       |                    Unique    Trans-    Trans-                          Total      %
                Virgin |     Raw      Raw   Scored    formed    formed       Transformed        Words    Tot
                  Text |   Score       SE    Words     Score        SE   [95% Conf. Interval]  Scored   Sc'd
-----------------------+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
           treagan1988 |  7.5286   0.0753      744    5.7475    1.8792     1.9890     9.5060    3,953   82.0
          tclinton1993 |  8.4344   0.0587      889   28.3691    1.4660    25.4371    31.3011    6,215   88.9
          tclinton2000 |  7.4928   0.0527      947    4.8537    1.3169     2.2199     7.4875    7,593   84.0
             tbush2001 |  8.0698   0.0779      742   19.2637    1.9445    15.3747    23.1528    3,742   86.2
             tbush2008 |  7.2127   0.0684      817   -2.1409    1.7084    -5.5577     1.2759    4,642   81.5
            tobama2009 |  6.8789   0.0585    1,522  -10.4760    1.4614   -13.3989    -7.5532    6,006  100.0