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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Natural Language Processing
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.
Natural Language Processing
REDUX was a natural language processing program for making generalizations from cases such as case studies, legal cases, case histories and so forth. It searched for repeated patterns, and was presented as a metalanguage for the analysis of the behavior of types.
Natural Language Processing
RiTa is a free, open-source natural language library for work with generative literature, offered as both a 'core' package of jar files and documentation, and a text-to-speech package. It is designed to be simple and intuitive while still offering flexibility to advanced users via statistical models for tagging, chunking and parsing. RiTa may also be integrated with Processing.
Natural Language Processing
RQDA is a free R package for qualitative analysis, developed specifically to analyze textual data. It is available for Windows, Linux/FreeBSD and Mac OS X. It currently requires texts to be in plain text format. RQDA supports non-English texts, and has been tested with Simplified Chinese in particular.
Natural Language Processing
SALEM was a system for natural language processing developed in the 1970s. It was written in standard FORTRAN, and automated lemmatization of German texts. Its main component was a program known as SATAN (Saarbrucker Automatische Text-analyse).
Natural Language Processing
SALT (Systemic Analysis of Language Transcripts) is a commercial software package for working with large datasets derived from transcripts. It includes transcription tools, text analysis based on natural language processing, content analysis, classification, and statistics. The Research version includes expanded search and metadata functions, and common text analysis functions such as word lists. A trial version is available.
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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