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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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Voyant Knots

Knots is a visualization tool that helps to understand patterns of word relevance in one or more documents. Each term is represented as a twisted line – when the lines overlap it means a relevance or linkage within the terms.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.

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Voyant Tools

Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.

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Voyant Tools 2.0 (Corpus View)

Voyant 2.0 is a complete rewrite of Voyant. It provides a suite of text analysis tools that will work with most texts you can upload or find on the web. These tools are combined in skins. For documentation see Documentation for Voyant 2.0

Rated 5.0 out of 5.

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Complex Sentiment Analysis

Code from an iPython notebook, based on: http://nealcaren.web.unc.edu/an-introduction-to-text-analysis-with-python-part-3/ This notebook shows how to conduct sentiment analysis on a collection of passages (e.g. Tweets) using dictionaries of positive and negative words.

Rated 4.0 out of 5.

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List Words - HTML (TAPoRware)

This tool lists words in an HTML document, either uploaded by the user or from a web address. List Words works with relatively small texts of under a megabyte in size. It is part of the TAPoRware collection of tools; there are XML and plain text versions available as well. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.

Rated 4.0 out of 5.

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LodLive

LodLive is a web-based tool developed to demonstrate Linked Data standards applied to browsing RDF resources with a simple interface. Users can search preset datasets, including DBpedia and Freebase, or search a resource available at a web address of the user's choice. LodLive is also available for download.

Rated 4.0 out of 5.

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Geoffrey Rockwell

Cool Voyant Tools

Not all Voyant tools show up in the default view or skin. Here is a list of some of the other tools worth trying.

4 tools

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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.

3 tools

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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

6 tools

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