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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quanteda is an R package for managing and analyzing textual data. The package is designed for R users needing to apply natural language processing to texts, from documents to final analysis. It is free and open source. Some of its functions are: Tokenizing, corpus building, topic modeling, visualizations, text similarity measures.
Analysis
QuickCode(used to call ScraperWiki) is an online tool to make that makes the process of data scraping simpler and more collaborative. Anyone can write a screen scraper using the online editor. In the free version, the code and data are shared with the world.
Analysis
'Raining Words' is a tool designed to display word frequency information, minus the words in a chosen stop list, from a user-specified document in a Java applet. High frequency words appear larger and move more slowly than lower frequency words. This tool requires Java 1.4.2_08 or a more recent version for your browser. As the TAPoRware interface defaults to opening the applet in a new window, popups must also be enabled from the TAPoRware site in order to see the results. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.
Analysis
The Ranked Deep Pages from Core Issue Crawler Network is a free, web-based tool for ranking pages based on inlink counts from a user-supplied Issuecrawler XML file. It outputs a three-column table with numbers, the inlink count from the core network, and the inlink count from the periphery of the network.
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RapidMiner is an open source data mining tool with a GUI interface, available in both a free, unsupported 'community version' and a for-pay, fully supported 'enterprise edition'. It utilizes a standardized XML interchange format for processing, and is compatible with common relational databases and spreadsheet applications.
Analysis
RATS (Random-Accessible Text Systems) was a PL/I utility for text analysis developed by John B. Smith of Pennsylvania State Univeristy in the early 1970s. It was aimed at researchers with some experience with programming and aimed to streamline the text analysis process while permitting users to customize the program to suit their work. As a system, Smith promoted RATS for concordences, thematic distributions and transitional matrixes.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
Curated list created by experience authors in the fields.
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.
4 tools
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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.
3 tools
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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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