LITTEXT: Stata module to automate construct discovery and relationship inference from an academic text

Nebojsa Davcik

Statistical Software Components from Boston College Department of Economics

Abstract: littext extracts candidate construct relationships from an unstructured corpus of academic text (titles, abstracts, full texts) or other research text such as interview transcripts, consumer reviews, and social media comments. It is intended for the exploratory researcher who has assembled a large corpus and wants to generate candidate relationships of the form "X is associated with Y", "X moderates the effect of Z on Y", etc., that can then be hand-curated into a formal, systematic literature review coding scheme.

Language: Stata
Requires: Stata version 19 and Python packages spacy, sentence-transformers, hdbscan, scikit-learn, umap-learn, networkx, pandas, and numpy
Keywords: construct discovery; text processing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-06-19
Note: This module should be installed from within Stata by typing "ssc install littext". The module is made available under terms of the MIT license (https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
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http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/litt.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_cleaners.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_cluster.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_embed.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_env.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_extract.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_hierarchy.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_io.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_pipeline.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_relate.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_run.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_state.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_viz.py
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/litt.sthlp
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext.sthlp
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_littext_analyze.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_littext_example.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_littext_export.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_littext_graph.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_littext_install.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/_/_littext_resolve.ado
http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/bocode/l/littext_example.dta

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