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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Natural Language Processing
WORDS was a text analysis program library for content analysis developed by Howard P. Iker at the University of Rochester. It identified major content themes, and generated word frequencies and collocations, and was sufficiently complex to require a 200-page user manual. This program is no longer available and does not have a web presence.
Search
WordSeer is a free, simple to use text analysis tool offered by the University of California Berkeley. It is entirely web based, with tools for search, reading and interrogating, heat maps and frequency. At this time, the only corpus available for exploration is the works of William Shakespeare.
Visualization
wordsimilarity (Word 2 Word) is a free, open source tool for plotting and visualizing semantic spaces within a corpus. The tool's visualizations assign words to nodes, with similarities marked by edges between nodes of varying strength. The visualizations are designed to be easy to manipulate based on graph data, and the system includes a library of ready-to-use relationship models with an interface for training the models based on a variety of language sources.
Search
WordSmith Tools is a commercial integrated suite of programs designed to analyze word behaviour in a text. It can be used to generate a list of all words or word clusters, concord, find keywords and more. This tool is recommended for publishers, language teachers and students, and language researchers.
Search
WordStat is a commercial software package for content analysis and text mining on natural language text such as interview transcripts. It also includes features for automatic document tagging and classification.
WordStat is a text analysis module for QDA Miner or SimStat. WordStat combines content analysis method by using dictionary approach and many algorithms exploration or various text mining methods. WordStat can apply existing categorization dictionaries to a new text corpus. It also may be used in the development and validation of new categorization dictionaries. When used in conjunction with manual coding, this module can provide assistance for a more systematic application of coding rules, help uncover differences in word usage between subgroups of individuals and assist in the revision of existing coding using KWIC (Keyword In Context) tables. WordStat is specifically designed to study textual information such as responses to open-ended questions, interviews, titles, journal articles, public speeches, electronic communications, etc. For more information, visit: http://provalisresearch.com/products/content-analysis-software/
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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