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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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Profiler Plus

Profiler Plus is a commercial general-purpose text analysis program based on natural language processing. It supports multiple languages and can output in text, XML and CSV.

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Project Quincy

Project Quincy is a free, open source Django application and MySQL database for tracing the development of social networks and instititions across time and space. Aimed at historians, it enables users to map networks in historical documentation such as biographic, organizational, correspondance or location. Creator Jean Bauer has developed Project Quincy as a single generalizable and extensible database with applications beyond mapping historic connections. All code is available via Github repository, or by contacting the creator directly.

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Prolog

Prolog is a general purpose programming language first developed in the early 1970s with a particular value to computational lingusitics. Within the humanities, it was applied to natural language processing.

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PRORA

PRORA was a historically important set of six interrelated programs for creating computerized concordances, first released in the 1960s. It output on punched cards, could be used for any language represented by the Latin alphabet, and also had functions for generating word lists and annotating texts. Glickman and Staalman desgined PRORA to reduce the requirement for researchers to learn computers to use them in their literary studies.

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Prose (Virtual Muse)

Prose is a free program for OS X and Windows written in Python and designed to generate random sentences. Originally described in Charles O. Hartman's book Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry , it illustrates one approach to using computer programs as adjuncts to the process of composing poetry.

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Prospect

Prospect is a free, open-source data curation and visualization plugin for WordPress, developed by the Digital Innovation Lab at UNC Chapel Hill. Data can be entered into Prospect by importing a formatted CSV file or entering it via a form created automatically by Prospect. Data collections can be inserted into WordPress pages or displayed in visualizations that allow users to explore information space, interpret patterns and access materials.

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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.

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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

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