# Citation File Format (https://citation-file-format.github.io/). GitHub reads
# this and shows a "Cite this repository" button on the repo page.
#
# It must agree with backend/app/citation.py, which is what the platform's own
# Cite dialog serves. backend/tests/test_citation.py fails if the two drift.
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this platform in research, please cite it and the CCR method papers below."
type: software
title: "CCR Platform: Theory-Driven Psychological Text Analysis with Contextualized Construct Representation"
abstract: >-
  A web platform for Contextualized Construct Representation (CCR): upload a
  corpus, choose validated psychological scale items, embed items and texts
  locally, and score every text by cosine similarity, with per-run metadata and
  a script that reproduces the numbers offline.
authors:
  - family-names: Anand
    given-names: Deva
    email: devaanand@umass.edu
    affiliation: "Culture and Morality Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst"
  - family-names: Atari
    given-names: Mohammad
    affiliation: "Culture and Morality Lab, University of Massachusetts Amherst"
version: 0.2.0
date-released: "2026-09-10"
license: MIT
url: "https://psychologicaltextanalysis.com"
repository-code: "https://github.com/Culture-and-Morality-Lab/ccr-platform"
keywords:
  - psychology
  - text analysis
  - natural language processing
  - sentence embeddings
  - psychometrics
references:
  - type: article
    title: "Contextualized Construct Representation: Leveraging Psychometric Scales to Advance Theory-Driven Text Analysis"
    authors:
      - family-names: Atari
        given-names: Mohammad
      - family-names: Omrani
        given-names: Ali
      - family-names: Dehghani
        given-names: Morteza
    year: 2023
    publisher:
      name: PsyArXiv
    doi: 10.31234/osf.io/m93pd
  - type: conference-paper
    title: "Surveying the Dead Minds: Historical-Psychological Text Analysis with Contextualized Construct Representation (CCR) for Classical Chinese"
    authors:
      - family-names: Chen
        given-names: Yuqi
      - family-names: Li
        given-names: Sixuan
      - family-names: Li
        given-names: Ying
      - family-names: Atari
        given-names: Mohammad
    year: 2024
    collection-title: "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing"
    publisher:
      name: "Association for Computational Linguistics"
    start: 2597
    end: 2615
    doi: 10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.151