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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Collaboration
Wikidot is a web application service that allows you to create a traditional wiki, forum, or blog. You can collaboratively work on documents, share files and build and host websites. Wikidot is also a large community with an active question and answer forum. Although it is free, there is a low cost premium option.
WikiMindMap is a mindmapping tool that allows you to browse in wiki content. It uses an interactive interface based on a system of nodes and brackets. Maps may be exported into FreeMind.
Annotating
WikiPack is a web based personal information organizer and Markdown editor that uses Dropbox for synced storage. Using plain text Markdown files and WikiWords, WikiPack gives information context and links entries together by turning your Markdown pages into a private, password protected wiki. The easy to use Markdown language lets you create and edit your wiki pages without having to learn complex wiki syntax. WikiPack features page history/versioning and visual change comparisons in the browser-based GUI and store all of your files in your Dropbox account. You can import existing markdown files to sync WikiPack with other apps and services using Dropbox, or use the quick-start template to set up new wikis. WikiPack includes a GUI markdown editor with syntax highlighting, built-in markdown reference, support for Multimarkdown table, and toolbar buttons with keyboard shortcuts and tools for common formatting. WikiPack works in the browser so you can use it on any desktop or mobile device that has an internet connection and Dropbox functionality.
Natural Language Processing
WinBrill is a part-of-speech tagger developed by Eric Brill in the 1990s for the French language laboratory ATILF. It was originally available for UNIX, with WinBrill optimized for Windows 95/98/NT as of 1999. The ATILP provided a vocabulary and rules files based on FRANTEXT data. Versions of the Brill tagger are still extant online.
Capture
Wink is a tutorial and presentation creation software, that allows you to create tutorials on how to use software, by capturing screenshots, mouse movements, and accompanying audio.
Analysis
Wisdom was a word sense disambiguation system that participated in the 1998 SENSEVAL competition. It used a simple supervised learning algorithm, drawing on co-occurrence statistics.
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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