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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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End to End is a visualization application for exploratory corpus analysis focused on collocations. This tool starts with two words and constructs a visual network of all collocations of those words within the corpus, while its interface enables interactive zooming and browsing of the resultant graph. Note: this tool is unavailable until licensing issues are resolved.
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The Extended Linguistic Dependency Diagrams (xLDDs) is a visualization software package offered by EURAC and implemented in JavaScript using the Protovis tookit. The xLDDs shows dependency structures with dynamic interaction in its visualizations, and can accomodate various types of linguistic information.
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Structured Parallel Coordinates is a free JavaScript data visualization tool offered by EURAC. It is intended for data that contains some kind of structure, such as temporal ordering, strings or ranked orderings. EURAC has provided several examples, such as ngram comparisons, (sub)corpus comparison and KWIC with live corpus queries.
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Microsoft Excel is spreadsheet software with calculation, graphing tools, and pivot table options for analyzing data. A cloud-hosted version is available as part of Office 365.
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EXPLEX (EXtracting information about Proper nouns to provide LEXical information) was a natural language processing system available in the 1990s. It was developed to create lexical entries for nouns appearing in the Wall Street Journal .
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Exploratree is a web-based library and editing application for "interactive thinking guides," which are templates useful for mind mapping, brainstorming, planning, and visualization. Originally developed for use in the classroom, to help students refine and focus their ideas, as well as manage plans to further their investigation. Thinking guides can be edited, printed, and downloaded directly from the browser.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
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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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