Automated text analyses (Natural Language Processing)
In many projects NGOs set up, questionnaires are used to score and evaluate the impact of a project on its beneficiaries. Closed questions with multiple choice answers are often they way you should want to go when setting these up. However, they can neglect the value that lies within more exploratory open questions, that don’t limit or steer a respondent’s feedback. Analyzing open answers can however be very time consuming, which by itself can be a reason not to experiment with such research designs. At PeaceTech Lab NL we have core team members specialized in automated text analyses through Natural Language Processing. These techniques help mitigate the risk of needing to do intense manual labor on interpreting high volume qualitative research. And they can also be used for scraping news websites and public social media data. If you have a project that might benefit from such analyses, but have always hesitated to put time into the needed techniques? Please let us know – we’ll check if we can make your life a little easier!