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Natural Language Processing
It is a set of tools created by the Polish branch of Common the Language Resource and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN) mainly for the analysis of Polish text. It has many Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools among which are verb annotations, named entity recognition, phrase parser, and spacial expression recognition. Some of the tools can be used for German and English.
Natural Language Processing
CLAS (Computerized Language Analysis System) was an important historic text analysis system available in the 1970s. It was written in PL/I for IBM 360/370 punch card machines and performed standard statistical tests and concordances on natural language texts.
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Classical Text Editor is a tool for scholars working on critical editions or an a text with commentary and translation, to aid in preparing a camera-ready copy or electronic publication. Its features includes but is not limited to collation, text retrieval, XML and HTML export and tagging, and a full range of formatting options. This tool has been in continuous development since 1997.
Natural Language Processing
CLAWS (Constituent Likelihood Automatic Word-tagging System) is a free parts-of-speech tagging tool from Lancaster University. It has been continuously developed since the 1980s, has consistently achieved 96-97% accuracy, and has been applied to the over 100 million word British National Corpus. This tool is available for download in addition to an on-line 'trial' version.
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Part-of-Speech (POS) tagging software for English - the classification of words into one or more categories based upon its definition, relationship with other words, or other context, also known as wordclass tagging. CLAWS (Constituent Likelihood Automatic Word-tagging System) uses several methods to identify parts of speech., most notably a system called Hidden Markov models (HMMs) which involve counting examples of co-occurrence of words and wordclasses in training data and making a table of the probabilities of certain sequences of words. Features: Parts-of-Speech tagging with an accuracy rate of approximately 96-97 percent for text analyzed for common text types in British English. Template tagging A free version is CLAWS is scheduled for release in 2015.
Clipping Magic lets you easily edit out the background of photos. Mark up the foreground and background in the editor, use the scalpel tool for precision selections, then download the new image. You can upload and edit as many images as you like but you must have a paid subscription to download ($4 - $15 per month depending on the number of download credits needed). Officially supported file formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF images using sRGB color space. CMYK displays the wrong colors in the editor but the resulting image is correct. Current max image resolution is 4 megapixels. The Clipping Magic website includes tutorials for each of their tools. Feature List: Web based graphical user Interface, with quick feedback on your edits. Smart Algorithm minimizes the amount of work you need to put in - you do not need to trace the entire outline of your image Pan and Zoom to any level necessary allows you to inspect details while quickly navigating your image. Undo / Redo Auto-Save Configurable Auto-Brush-Size: The brush size adapts dynamically to your zoom level so that you can easily zoom in to make detailed edits. Refine Edges gives you full control over smoothing, feathering and offset. Dedicated Hair Tool separates out hair from clean and distinct backgrounds. Color Levels - tune brightness, shadows and highlights, and the color temperature. Rotate / Straighten. Crop & Resize Shadows creator with both drop shadow and ellipse shadows. Background Color or transparent background options Configurable Defaults Bulk Clipping Share Your Results with a secure URL They also offer a paid REST-oriented Web API for automating the uploading of images and downloading results. Subscriptions range from $50 to $250 per month.The editor can be integrated into a website using ClippingMagic.js
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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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