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
WordCruncher is long-standing text indexing, retrieval and analysis program offered by Brigham Young University. Its functions include tagging, contextual searching, collocation and analytical reporting, and its development has been active since the 1980s.
Natural Language Processing
WordHoard is a tool for the study of large texts or transcribed speech. It annotates or tags texts by applying morphological, lexical, prosodic, and narratological criteria. Users may apply WordHoard to their own texts, or to the corpora included with the tool. At present, that corpora includes the entire canon of Early Greek epic (original and in translation), Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spencer.
Natural Language Processing
WORDS was a text analysis program library for content analysis developed by Howard P. Iker at the University of Rochester. It identified major content themes, and generated word frequencies and collocations, and was sufficiently complex to require a 200-page user manual. This program is no longer available and does not have a web presence.
Natural Language Processing
WordSmith Tools is a commercial integrated suite of programs designed to analyze word behaviour in a text. It can be used to generate a list of all words or word clusters, concord, find keywords and more. This tool is recommended for publishers, language teachers and students, and language researchers.
Natural Language Processing
WordStat is a commercial software package for content analysis and text mining on natural language text such as interview transcripts. It also includes features for automatic document tagging and classification.
Natural Language Processing
XTRACT was a tool for lexical collocation developed by Frank Smadja, then of Columbia University. It was designed to use statistical techniques to identify collocations of aribitrary length, and to generate syntactic relationships between words. This tool is no longer available and does not have a web presence.
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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