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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

Nerf

Nerf is a statistical named entity recognition (NER) tool based on linear-chain conditional random fields (CRFs). It has been adapted to recognize tree-like structures of NEs (i.e., with recursively embedded NEs) by using the joined label tagging method which -- for a particular sentence -- works as follows: CRF model is used to determine the most probable sequence of labels, Extended IOB method is used to decode the sequence into a forerst of NEs. The extended IOB method also provides the inverse encoding function which is needed during the model training.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Visualization

Netlytic

Netlytic is a community-supported text and social networks analyzer that can automatically summarize and visualize public online conversations on social media sites. It is made for researchers by researchers, no programming/API skills required. With Netlytic you can: capture publicly available posts from social media sites or other sources (Twitter, YouTube, RSS Feed, or text/csv file) Discover popular topics Find and explore emerging themes of discussions Build, visualize and analyze online communication networks using social network analysis Map geo-coded social media data

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Visualization

Netlytic

Netlytic is a free, web-based tool for analyzing and visualizing text and social network data. It enables users to capture data from sources such as social media, blogs or online forums; identify themes and actors; and generate both chain and personal name networks for further analysis and visualization. Users can import datasets from RSS, cloud storage (Google Drive or Dropbox), Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and a plain text file. Results can be exported in formats accessible to other network analysis tools, such as CSV.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Natural Language Processing

NETMET

NETMET is a tool for generating and interpreting metaphors designed to run in DOS. Though this tool is no longer under development, it is still available for download. It includes a number of sample input metaphor files and is designed to be modified and improved as needed by the user.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Netvibes

Netvibes offers a free personal web dashboard for following feeds, friends and using the provided apps. A premium account includes functionality for analytics, tagging, curation, alerts, sentiment analysis, and search.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Netvizz

Netvizz is a free, web-based tool for extracting datasets from Facebook. As the tool utilizes Facebook Apps, users must have a Facebook account to access it.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

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Analysis

Concordle

Concordle is a free, web based word cloud and concordance tool built in Javascript. It describes itself as the "not so pretty cousin of Wordle" and first debuted in 2006. Users can paste text into the provided box and generate a word cloud, concordance or list of words ordered by frequecy. It also includes a field for stop words.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.
Visualization

Omeka

Omeka is a content management system designed for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Omeka falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability. Omeka allows users to publish cultural heritage objects, extend its functionality with themes and plugins, and curate online exhibits with digital objects.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.
Visualization

Voyant Cirrus

Cirrus is a visualization tool that displays a word cloud relating to the frequency of words appearing in one or more documents. One can click on any word appearing in the cloud to obtain detailed information about its relativity.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.

Geoffrey Rockwell

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Audio Production Software

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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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