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TAPoR catalogues concordancers, annotators, topic models, stylometry packages, and visualization environments. Every record notes the platform, the license, and what the tool is actually good for.
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AUTHOR was a set of interrelated programs for determining authorship developed in the 1970s at Pennsylvania State University. The system was developed in PL/I and was available for the IBM 370. It integrated RATS for word extraction, and MINITAB II for statistics.
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Automatic Mapping Among Lexico-Grammatical Annotation Models (AMALGAM) is a free, longstanding tool for tagging text according to part of speech (PoS) from Leeds University. It includes eight PoS tag schemes, and a Multi-Tagged Corpus of samples tagged with various schemas.
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AUTOSTYL was a set of linked programs for stylistic analysis developed by Louis T. Milic in the 1980s. Its functions included frequency distributions for letters in words, syllable countering, affix analysis, indexing, and word classification.
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BALCON (Bilingual Analytical Literary and Linguistic Concordance) was a tool for creating bilingual concordances available in the 1970s.
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BIBCON was a key-word-out-of-context system for concordances developed in FORTRAN and available in the 1960s. It was a modified version of another system, KWIC.
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BookLamp's Sentiment Viewer is a visualization tool that graphs out a book's sentiments according to intensity and location in the text. Books to graph can be searched by title or author.
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Geoffrey Rockwell
Not all Voyant tools show up in the default view or skin. Here is a list of some of the other tools worth trying.
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Holly Pickering
Interested in audio production and editing? Here are a few programs that can help you get on your way. Some of them are free, some not, but all are helpful and useful.
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Jason Bradshaw
This list compiles a suite of tools that make up Kynan Ly's Text Analysis for Twitter Research (TATR) Library. Recipes to these notebooks can be found on methodi.ca
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