2050	 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. Content analysis parsing syntactic analysis natural language processing information retrieval language analysis text processing
