Automatic Parsing for Content Analysis Although automatic syntactic and semantic analysis is not yet possible for all of an unrestricted natural language text, some applications, of which content analysis is one, do not have such a stringent coverage requirement. Preliminary studies show that the Harvard Syntactic Analyzer can produce correct and unambiguous identification of the subject and object of certain verbs for approximately half of the relevant occurrences. This provides a degree of coverage for content analysis variables which compares favorably to manual methods, in variables which compares favorably to manual methods, in which only a sample of the total available text is normally processed. CACM June, 1970 Damerau, F. J. Content analysis, parsing, syntactic analysis, natural language processing, information retrieval, language analysis, text processing 3.42 3.71 CA700605 JB February 13, 1978 11:43 AM 1350 4 2050 1659 4 2050 1856 4 2050 2050 4 2050 1225 5 2050 2050 5 2050 2050 5 2050 2050 5 2050