TACT (Text Analysis Computing Tools)

TACT (Text Analysis Computing Tools) is a historically important text analysis and retrieval system that began development during 1986-1989 at the University of Toronto in cooperation with IBM and remained in use into the 1990s. It was designed to run ...

GINGER II

GINGER II is a word-sense disambiguator for English, offering a new approach to the algorithm developed for GINGER I. It directly extracts semantic disambiguation rules from dictionary example phrases, and semantically tags, syntactically parses and ...

INTEX

INTEX is a linguistic development environment active until 2005. It includes large-coverage dictionaries and grammers, can parse texts of several million words in real-time, and tools to create and maintain large-coverage lexical resources, morphological ...

NETMET

NETMET is a tool for generating and interpreting metaphors designed to run in DOS. Though this tool is no longer under development, it is still available for download. It includes a number of sample input metaphor files and is designed to be modified ...

Micro-EYEBALL

Micro-EYEBALL is a microprocessor version of the English language parser developed in the 1970s. This historically important legacy tool could also provide statistical descriptions of many linguistic features of a text. This tool is no longer available, ...

Collate: Interactive Collation of Large Textual Traditions

Collate was a program designed for scholars concerned with the difficulties of medieval vernacular traditions. It aimed to help scholars with the preparation of critical editions, and could collate up to a hundred texts. Collate was also capable of ...

XTRACT

XTRACT was a tool for lexical collocation developed by Frank Smadja, then of Columbia University. It was designed to use statistical techniques to identify collocations of aribitrary length, and to generate syntactic relationships between words. This ...

JConcorder

JConcorder is Java software for building and managing word catalogues, originally released for the Macintosh as Concorder / Le Concordeur. Amongst its features are functions for listing and cataloguing words, generating concordances, exporting concordances ...

PC-KIMMO

PC-KIMMO is a tool for morphological parsing available since 1985. It is designed to generate and/or parse words, for use by computational linguists, descriptive linguists and others interested in natural language processing. Though this tool is no ...

URICA! II

URICA! II  (User Response Interactive Collation Assistant) was an interactive collation program for the Macintosh. It semi-automated text collation, and assisted text comparison by 'tagging' variants or automatically reconciling small differences. ...

VINCI

VINCI is a natural language generation environment, first introduced in 1986 and with a sustained web presence. It provides linguists with a collection of linguist-friendly metalanguages for modelling natural language. It can generate sentences and ...

Micro-OCP

Micro-OCP (Oxford Concordance Program) was a major and historically important textual analysis tool for microprocessor computers. It enabled users to generate concordances, word lists and indexes, in addition to facilitating text markup in COCOA or ...

FINNMORF

FINNMORF was a tool for generating full lexical paradigms for Finnish words. It modelled Finnish morphological competence, to facilitate identification of the most likely forms of a word within its context. Although the program could not select the ...

WordCruncher

WordCruncher is long-standing text indexing, retrieval and analysis program offered by Brigham Young University. Its functions include tagging, contextual searcing, collocation and analytical reporting, and its development has been active since the ...

DV-COLL (Donne Variorum Textual Collation Program)

DV-COLL (Donne Variorum Textual Collation Program) is a historically important textual collation program first introduced in the 1980s and maintained into the present. It was originally designed to assist in creating a digitized corpus of the works ...