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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Publishing
The LC Newspaper Viewer is an open-source web application that understands how to model newspaper data created according to a set of technical guidelines, with the goal of publishing an online archive like Chronicling America.
Visualization
This JavaScript library can be used to create mobile-friendly interactive maps. It does not provide data to map, but can be used to map spatial data in GeoJSON format, or display tiles from other sources such as MapBox.
Analysis
This tool allows you to search for words in 252 languages and will give you information about that word based on the corpora they have available. Examples of information returned include examples sentences using that word, coocurrences, similar words/phrases, and a mind-map style graph.
Natural Language Processing
LEMMA was a program package for lemmatizing German word-forms released in 1978. It was designed to work with computer-readable corpora. The algorithm was implemented in PL/I on an IBM 370/168 computer.
Search
Letter-Pairs Analysis is a free, web-based tool for calculating and visualizing the number of times a pair of letters appears in a given text. Each pair is represented as a 'bubble', sized according to how frequently that pair appears in the text. An HTML5 version is also now available. Note : this tool forms the basis of Voyant Bubbles.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
Curated list created by experience authors in the fields.
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.
4 tools
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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.
3 tools
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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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