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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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Weka (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) is a free Java-based data mining workbench of machine learning algorithms, offered by the Machine Learning Group of the University of Waikato. It includes tools for data pre-processing, classification, clustering and visualization, among others. Development on Weka began in the early 1990s and it is extensively documented.
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Whatizit can ingest up to 500,000 terms pasted into the input box and execute any of the pre-defined text analysis pipelines.
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WinBrill is a part-of-speech tagger developed by Eric Brill in the 1990s for the French language laboratory ATILF. It was originally available for UNIX, with WinBrill optimized for Windows 95/98/NT as of 1999. The ATILP provided a vocabulary and rules files based on FRANTEXT data. Versions of the Brill tagger are still extant online.
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Wisdom was a word sense disambiguation system that participated in the 1998 SENSEVAL competition. It used a simple supervised learning algorithm, drawing on co-occurrence statistics.
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Wmatrix is a free tool for corpus analysis and comparison. It provides a web interface for USAS and CLAWS, in addition to enabling standard corpus linguistic functions such as frequency lists and concordances.
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This tool is a Java applet that allows the user to paint with words extracted from an online document. Java 1.4.2_08 or newer is required.
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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