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Mallet

Mallet is a Java based library and command line framework that provides statistical and machine learning tools for use with natural language processing.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.

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NLTK 3.3 (Natural Language Toolkit)

NLTK 2.0 (Natural Language Tooklt) is a free, open source collection of Python modules, linguistic data and documentation for research and development in natural language processing and text analytics, with distributions for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. It offers a platform for building Python programs to work with human language data, and integrates a guide to programming fundamentals.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.

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NodeXL

NodeXL is a free, open source tool for generating and exploring network graphs from Microsoft Excel files. It is particularly suited to data from social media sources, and includes the ability to directly import data from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and email, with additional plugins available for gathering data from Facebook, Microsoft Exchange, wikis and URLs. The tool generates visualizations that can be adjusted, zoomed and filtered, with additional features for vertex grouping, graphing metric calculations, and automating tasks. NodeXL can both import and export data in GraphML, Pajek, UCINet and matrix formats.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.

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Textalyser

Textalyser is a free web-based text analysis tool offered by the Bernhard Huber Internet Engineering Company. Users can paste text into the provided entry field, upload a file or provide a URL for analysis. Textalyser provides detailed statistics on the text to determine subject, analyse word groupings, determine keyword density and deterimine the most prominent phrase. The Textalyser website is no longer available as of late 2014. It has been captured by the Internet Archive, and can still be viewed there.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.

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TextArc

TextArc is a free visualization tool that represents an entire text on a single page. It has elements of an index, concordance and summary all in one place, encouraging the viewer to use its juxtapositions to uncover meaning. The web-based applet is preloaded with thousands of text collected from Project Gutenberg. Note: TextArc was designed for browsers circa 2002 and requires Java SE 6 to run.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.

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Textual Geography Analyzer

Parses text tagged by the Stanford named entity recognizer in order to collect and analyze mentions of locations. Also incorporates the Google API in order to geocode those locations and, ultimately, mark them on a map. This code was written in an IPython Notebook, so the code below is actually a collection of scattered code snippets. Please see the repository on github for full details and documentation, or the Methods Common recipe ( http://methodi.ca/recipes/mapping-locations-corpus ) for a step-by-step guide. NOTE: Users will be required to acquire their own Google API key, store it in a text file, and then point the code to that text file. Instructions can be found in the IPython Notebook itself. Search for "api_key_file" to find the line in code that needs to be changed.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.

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Holly Pickering

Audio Production Software

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

TATR: Text Analysis for Twitter Research

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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