liwca.datasets.tables.fetch_scope

liwca.datasets.tables.fetch_scope()

Fetch the SCOPE column-classification metadata table.

The returned DataFrame describes each variable in the South CarOlina Psycholinguistic metabase (SCOPE), one row per variable, with hierarchical Level.1 / Level.2 / Level3. grouping plus Source, Definition, Citation, and Web.Link columns. For per-column lexicon access (the actual word-level scores sliced into a weighted .dicx), use liwca.datasets.dictionaries.fetch_scope.

SCOPE is a curated collection of psycholinguistic properties of words from major databases - more than 250 variables and over 100,000 words plus ~80,000 nonwords.

Direct link to downloaded file: https://sc.edu/scopedb/fulldb/data_with_metadata.xlsx.

If used, cite: Gao et al., 2023. SCOPE: The South Carolina psycholinguistic metabase. Behav Res Methods doi:10.3758/s13428-022-01934-0

See also

liwca.datasets.dictionaries.fetch_scope

Fetch one SCOPE variable as a weighted .dicx dictionary.

liwca.datasets.dictionaries.list_scope_stems

List the valid stems accepted by dictionaries.fetch_scope.

Return type:

DataFrame