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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This tool locates fixed phrases of a user-chosen context length containing a specified word and displays all matching phrases in several different ways. Versions are also available for HTML and XML through the TAPoR toolset.
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Tool uses the Hypergraph Package (http://hypergraph.sourceforge.net/) to display the structure of a user-selected XML file. This tool requires jsdk1.4.2 or later; otherwise only the default hypergraph is displayed.
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This tool lists words in an plain text document, either uploaded by the user or from a web address. List Words works with relatively small texts of under a megabyte in size. It is part of the TAPoRware collection of tools; there are XML and HTML versions available as well. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.
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Voyant Skin Builder is a function within the larger Voyant toolset that enables users to create a customized selection and arrangement of tools with which to analyze a text. These custom skins can be saved or exported for future use.
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Term Fountain is a tool for visualizing word frequencies, and a part of the Voyant suite of tools. It takes the most common words in a corpus and represents them as a fountain. This tool is still in beta.
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Term Frequencies Chart shows how terms are distributed across document(s) in a corpus (documents are shown in the order in which they were added).
Week of 1 Nov – 7 Nov
Three tools from the catalogue, each rated at least 3 stars. A new set appears each Sunday.
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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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