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 splits an XML document at specified points into 'tokens' - words, lines, sentences, paragraphs or characters. The user can specify characters, patterns, or tags upon which to separate tokens, and choose to have the results listed separator removed, appearing before the split, or appearing after the split. Versions are also available for HTML and plain text within the TAPoR toolset.
Visualization
TokenX is a free text visualization and analysis tool for XML documents. It offeres a web-based environment and can generate word clouds, highlight parts of text such as words, non-words and punctuation, KWIC (keyword in context) and more. TokenX also offers more playful options, such as word substitution, or an option to replace words with images.
Visualization
Tom Sawyer Perspectives is a commercial software package for data visualization and analysis. It provides a graphical software development kit and preview environment, including layout and Tom Sawyer Software's proprietary data visualization reference architecture. The SDK is particularly aimed at developers seeking to create data-oriented visualization applications, and permits users to customize with toolbars, context menus, and editing behaviour, to name a few. Applications are designed to enable design sharing and reuse, including via web application deployment. The Java version of Tom Sawyer Perspectives is available for Windows, OS X and Linux environments, and .NET for Windows only. Evaluation copies are available on request; no prices are quoted on the site.
Visualization
Identify topics in given texts and visualize the topic distribution in each text.
Content Analysis
A graphical user interface tool for Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling.
Natural Language Processing
Topic Modelling Tool is a free, open source tool for Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modelling with a graphical user interface. The tool learns topics in a user-supplied corpus of plain text files, and outputs results as a CSV file for further analysis.
Week of 8 Nov – 14 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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