NIH-NCI Tobacco-Documents Project
at The University of Georgia

The Tobacco Documents Corpus (TDC) and Text Analysis Tools at The University of Georgia

Presentations and Papers:

1. RESEARCH REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS BASED ON TOBACCO INDUSTRY DOCUMENTS, 1995-2004. A Bibliography. Norbert Hirschhorn.
2. Identities for Sale: How Tobacco Industry Marketers Construed Asians, Asian Americans, and Pacific Islanders. Kelly Fellows & Don Rubin.
3. Looking for the Smoking Gun: Principled Sampling in Creating the Tobacco Industry Documents Corpus. WILLIAM A. KRETZSCHMAR, JR., CLAYTON DARWIN, CATI BROWN, DONALD L. RUBIN, & DOUGLAS BIBER. Outlines our initial sampling strategy.
4. Causal markers in tobacco industry documents:the pragmatics of responsibility. Cati Brown and Don Rubin. PDF. Traces use of 'because,' 'since,' and 'as' in the TDC.
5. Activism Through the Looking Glass: Colorado GASP, Philip Morris, and the Role of Public Relations. Ashli Quesinberry Stokes and Donald L. Rubin. doc.
6. Detecting Possible Deception in Tobacco Industry Documents. Don Rubin & Yuan Hou. ppt. An Application of the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count Program.
7. Being Frank: Corporate Identity Construction and the Tobacco Industry’s “A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers”. Cati Brown & Don Rubin. DOC. Presentation for SALSA: Symposium About Society and Language: Austin. April, 2004.
8. Proposed sampling strategy. William Kretzschmar. HTML. Outlines our initial sampling strategy.
9. Linguistic Methods for Analyzing Deception in Tobacco Company Documents. Clayton Darwin and Stacy Wright. Powerpoint. UGA Biomedical and Health Sciences Institute Spring Symposium 2002 (Athens, Georgia). Provides a general overview of our project.
10. Lips, Lungs, Lies, and Language: Linguistic Analyses of Tobacco industry Documents. Donald Rubin. Powerpoint. Tobacco Industry Documents Research Investigators Meeting 2002, National Cancer Institute (Washington DC).
11. Looking for the Smoking Gun: Forensic Corpus Exploration of the Tobacco Documents. William Kretzschmar, Clayton Darwin, Doug Biber, and Donald Rubin. Text Abstract. American Association for Applied Corpus Linguistics 2002, Fourth North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics and Language Teaching (Indianapolis, Indiana).
12. Text Encoding for Linguistic Analysis of Tobacco Documents. William Kretzschmar, Clayton Darwin, and Donald Rubin. Text Abstract. South-Eastern Conference on Linguistics November 2002, SECOL LXVII (Baltimore, Maryland).
13. Manipulative Language Strategies in Tobacco Industry Media Statements. Donald Rubin, Norbert Hirschhorn and Lona Jean Turner. Powerpoint. National Conference on Tobacco or Health 2002 ().
14. Managing Complex Corpora with XSLT: An Example from the Tobacco Document Corpus. Cati Brown and Clayton Darwin. Text Abstract. Linguistics Society of America 2003 Conference (Atlanta, Georgia).
15. Corpus Linguistics Takes on Big Tobacco. Cati Brown, Clayton Darwin, Bill Kretzschmar, Don Rubin. Powerpoint. UGA Digital Language Lab Colloquium Series 2003, (Athens, Georgia).
16. The Tobacco Documents Corpus: Archiving the Industry. Clayton Darwin, Bill Kretzschmar, Don Rubin. HTML. Association for Computers and Humanities 2003 Conference (Athens, Georgia).
17. Preservation as a Variety of American English. Roger W. Shuy. MSWord Document. American Dialect Society, December 2002 (Atlanta, Georgia).
18. New Tools for Tobacco Document Research. Don Rubin, Bill Kretzschmar, Clayton Darwin. Powerpoint. Tobacco Industry Documents Research Investigators Meeting 2003, National Cancer Institute (Washington DC).
19. Just Enjoy the Smoke: The Use of Redefinition by the Tobacco Industry in Response to Public Health Reports. Pannetta, Galloway & Rubin. MSWord Document. AFA/NCA Summer Conference on Argumentation 2003 (Alta, Utah).
20. Activism Through the Looking Glass: Colorado GASP, Philip Morris, and the Role of Public Relations. Ashli Quesinberry. MSWord Document. Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, November 2003 (Miami, Florida).
21. Darwin's notes on sampling, classifying, and archiving. Clayton Darwin. Text. A thorough but jumbled history of the project from start to present (updated fairly regularly sometimes).

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