Publication

WhatYouSay is part of the Living Literature research programme and is positioned as a research-backed tool.

1) Research context

WhatYouSay is part of the Living Literature research programme by Rayan B. Vasse (PhD). It applies methods from computational sociolinguistics, sentiment analysis, and moral foundations theory to informal digital communication.

The tool operationalises methods aligned with submitted/preprint work in this wider programme.

2) WYS-specific publication

What You Say (WYS): Automated Two-Level Pipeline for Interpretive Analysis of Digital Conversation (Preprint, 2026-03-26). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19326080

3) Open source

The WYS analysis pipeline is implemented in open-source scripts. Repository: github.com/RayanBVasse/WhatYouSay

The codebase is available for inspection by technically trained users. Contributions and issues are welcome.

4) How to cite

Vasse, R. B. (2026). What You Say (WYS): Automated Two-Level Pipeline for Interpretive Analysis of Digital Conversation (Preprint). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19326080.

If you use WhatYouSay in academic research, please cite this tool and the relevant papers listed above.