The Dresden Anxiety Dictionary (DAW) is not a computer program itself. It is designed for use with the software CoAn for Windows (© Matthias Romppel, Bielefeld). CoAn is a content analysis software for quantitative analysis. It is completely written in German language. This page describes the main features of the program. More information, a testversion for download and much more you may find at the WWW-pages of Matthias Romppel, links are available at the end of this page. A test of the program and a comparison with other software is avaiable in: Melina, A. & Züll, C. (1999): A review of software for text analysis. Mannheim: Zuma.

Possibilities for Analysis:

• Content analysis (automatical or interactive) with different search possibilities (e.g. single words, phrases and so on)
  
• Keyword-in-context-Analysis (Kwic)
  
• Word lists (e.g. alphabetically, word counts)
  
• Comparison of word lists
  
• Reliability of content analytic indicators
  
• DOTA-coefficients (with a complete Dota-dictionary in German)
  
• type-token-Ratio, hapax legomena, mean of word length, variance of word length, variance of word counts, variance of relative word counts and much more
  

Tools:

• Internal texteditor
  
• Tool for changing ASCII-Code to ANSI-Code and back
  
• Tool for the word by word dismantling of text (Odd-Even)
  
• Tool for the reanalysis of a just analyzed tagged text
  
• Editor for category systems
  
• Context sensitive online-Help (in German)
  

Output-Files:

• Graphics
  
• Tables
  
• HTML-Files
  
• SPSS-Syntax
  
• Texts (KWIC, coded text, not coded words, word lists)
  

Links to CoAn:

• Email to Matthias Romppel
  
• CoAn für Windows©-Homepage
  
• Download a testversion (830 kb)
  
• Content analysis pages of Matthias Romppel