For researchers who work with text
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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CATPAC is a program available for purchase designed to summarize a text's main ideas. It is multilingual and primarily aimed at researchers in the sciences, and can handle large volumes of text. Text must be formatted in ASCII or RTF. The CATPAC website is no longer available or maintained as of 2014. An archived version of the site and its information can be viewed via the Internet Archive.
Analysis
The CETA (Centre pour l'Etude de la Traduction Automatique) Parser was a program developed in the 1960s that could automatically reduce Russian sentences to a string of words and provide equivalents for each in French. CETA developed its parser in conjunction with Professor Mel'chuk of Moscow.
Analysis
Timeline Builder is a free tool for creating and maintaining interactive, Flash-based timelines for viewing on the web. Basic text formatting and links to other resources can be added through basic HTML. This tool requires registration through the web page.
Analysis
Circos is a free visualization tool for creating publication-quality infographics and illustrations. Its visualizations are arranged in a circle to facilitate exploring relationships between objects and positions, which also has the benefit of offering a high data-to-ink ratio. Though promoted for the sciences, it is highly flexible and can visualize datasets from a wide variety of fields.
Analysis
It is a set of tools created by the Polish branch of Common the Language Resource and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) mainly for the analysis of Polish text. It has many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools among which are verb annotations, named entity recognition, phrase parser, and spacial expression recognition. Some of the tools can be used for German and English.
Analysis
CLAS (Computerized Language Analysis System) was an important historic text analysis system available in the 1970s. It was written in PL/I for IBM 360/370 punch card machines and performed standard statistical tests and concordances on natural language texts.
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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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