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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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Ruby
Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.
Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails is a web development framework written in the Ruby language. It is intended to be used with an Agile development methodology that is used by web developers for rapid development.
Rwui
Rwui allows you to convert an R script to a web page with an interface where users can run the script(s) even if they don't know R.
Natural Language Processing
SALEM
SALEM was a system for natural language processing developed in the 1970s. It was written in standard FORTRAN, and automated lemmatization of German texts. Its main component was a program known as SATAN (Saarbrucker Automatische Text-analyse).
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SALT (Statistic Analysis of Language Transcripts)
SALT (Systemic Analysis of Language Transcripts) is a commercial software package for working with large datasets derived from transcripts. It includes transcription tools, text analysis based on natural language processing, content analysis, classification, and statistics. The Research version includes expanded search and metadata functions, and common text analysis functions such as word lists. A trial version is available.
Week of 8 Nov – 14 Nov
This week’s tools
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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.
4 tools
View listHolly 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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