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SCBD (Sentence and Chunk Boundaries Detector)

SCBD (Sentence and Chunk Boundaries Detector) was an NLP tool suited to Modern Greek text. It could detect sentence and chunk boundaries within an unrestricted text, could assign style markers, and was effective even on a large corpus of 200,000 words

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Natural Language Processing

SEASR: Date Entities to Simile Timeline

SEASR's Date Entities to Similie Timeline is a free tool for extracting data entities that may be displayed on a timeline. It uses OpenNLP to extract sentences containing dates, and SIMILE Timeline to display them.

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Natural Language Processing

SEASR: Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test

SEASR's Flesch-Kinkaid Readability Test is a free tool that analyses text from a URL, calculates the Flesch-Kincaid readibility measure of the text, and displays the results.

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Natural Language Processing

SEASR: Location Entities To Google Map

SEASR's Location Entities To Google Map is a tool for extracting locations from a text that can be displayed on a map. It uses OpenNLP to extract the entities, and then displays both the sentences and the locations in Google Maps. The page for this tool on SEASR's website is no longer active. However, it can still be viewed via the Internet Archive.

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Natural Language Processing

SEASR: OpenNLP Entities To Protovis Network Graph

SEASR's OpenNLP Entities to Protovis Network Graph is a free tool for extracting entities within a specified sentence distance within a text. The OpenNLP system is used for entity extraction, and their relationships are represented in a link node network graph generated in Protovis. While SEASR is still active, their page for OpenNLP Entities to Protivis Network Graph is no longer available. It can still be viewed via the Internet Archive.

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Natural Language Processing

SELECT (Sum and Evaluate the Largest Exponentiated Correlation Terms)

SELECT (Sum and Evaluate the Largest Exponentiated Correlation Terms) was a computer program for identifying associationally rich words for content analysis emerging from the WORDS research program developed in the 1970s. Although historically important, SELECT is no longer available and does not have an web presence.

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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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