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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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Textal is a text analysis app for the iPhone and iPad offered by the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. It creates word clouds from texts, websites, tweets and documents, then allows users to explore the statistics and relationships between words in the text. As a tool, it is intended as an introduction to to text analysis while expanding the functionality traditionally implemented in word clouds.
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TextAnnotator is a web based annotation tool implemented with the JavaScript framework ExtJS and the visualization library d3.js that can process and annotate NLP documents in UIMA (Unstructured Information Management applications) format. TextAnnotator is a framework that offers several annotation tools for generating IMA-compliant training data that can be used to train classifiers in support of the needs of humanities scholars. Note: The tool is currently not working.
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TextBlob is a Python (2 and 3) library for processing textual data. It provides a simple API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks such as part-of-speech tagging, noun phrase extraction, sentiment analysis, classification, translation, and more.
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TEXTCORD is a concordance program available in the 1980s. It was developed in SPITBOL at the University of Toronto's Divinity School.
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TextDNA is a free tool for large-scale overview analysis of linguistic data offered by the University of Wisconsin, Madison. It identifies patterns within a text, and enables users to compare ordered sets of data with its sequence visualization. It can be used with texts stored in databases, Google N-Grams datasets and CSV files.
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Textexture is a free, web-based tool for visualizing texts as a network. The visualization gives a quick visual summary of the text. Clicking on nodes brings up the excerpts the tool has identified as most relivant, and permits users to locate similar texts. Users can upload their own text, or visualize texts from Textexture's library of public texts.
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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