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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Analysis
This tool is used to display the elements and attributes found in an XML document. It enables users to count all instances of an element and to view the structure/hierarchy of the document, in addition to listing attributes and attribute values. It is part of the TAPoRware collection of tools; please see List HTML Tags for a similar HTML tool.
Analysis
LitStats is a tool for statistical analysis of natural language texts developed in the 1980s by Dr. Stephen Reimer of the University of Alberta. From an ASCII text, it can generate word frequency counts, word lengths, initial letter frequencies, sentence length frequencies and verbal segment frequencies. It was originally developed for an IBM 3033, and can still be run on systems using Windows XP.
Analysis
LitViz is a tool available online for the visualisation of text-information as a 3D-graph. The algorithm uses multiple techniques from NLP (Natural Language Processing) like Stanford PoS-Tagger, Lemmatizer, Tokenizer and more to generate the necessary dataset for the 3D-function.
Analysis
LIWC (Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count) is a text analysis program available for purchase. It calculates the degree to which various categories of words are used in a text, and can process texts ranging from e-mails to speeches, poems and transcribed natural language in either plain text or Word formats. A free, minimalist web version is available through the website.
Analysis
Lucidchart is an online diagram tool that enables users to easily visualize complex information through flow charts, mind maps and other diagram types. Multiple users can work together simultaneously to edit a document. Lucidchart integrates with many platforms including Google Apps/Drive, Confluence, JIRA, Slack, ec. Free accounts are provided for educational use.
Analysis
Lynks provides an easy to use, in-browser tool that helps you to create your own networks. Lynks is an initiative by Centre for Innovation, part of Leiden University (Campus The Hague). The software has been developed in 2014 in co-creation, with expertise from Dr. Eelke Heemskerk from University of Amsterdam. The software development has been supported by the financial contributions from the European Union Fund for Regional Development (EFRO) and the Municipality of The Hague.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
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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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