I have been asked a number of times by respondents to these surveys to explain how the Leximancer concept maps work. Leximancer is software developed at the University of Queensland to perform analysis of text. It identifies important words in a text using statistical analysis. It then codes the blocks of text in which the words occur.

This enables flexible and powerful classification of the sort of text that we gather in our surveys, and frequently shows-up relationships that would be difficult to spot using hand-coding techniques.