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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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CLOC is a general purpose text analysis package originally offered by the University of Birmingham Computing Centre in the late 1970s, and now avaiable for download. It can generate concordances, collocates and word lists for a text. This tool was developed in Fortran.
Cluuz is a search engine that shows not only links to related pages, but also entities (people, companies, organizations) and images that are extracted from within the search results. In addition to the results, Cluuz displays a tag cloud of the most relevant entities extracted from returned results, as well as a semantic graph view of a cluster of terms.
CMAP allows users to create, navigate, and share concept maps that can easily be displayed online using HTML and Javascript.
Analysis
The CMU-Cambridge Statistical Language Modelling Toolkit is a longstanding set of Unix tools offered by Carnegie Mellon University and Cambridge University. It includes functions for word frequency, n-grams, vocabulary and words marked as 'context cues'. Version 1 was written by Roni Rosenfel and released in 1994.
Search
CNRTL is a free XUI and Javascript extension for Firefox designed to enable users to access the French lexical CNRTL portal directly within their web browser. With its toolbar, users can also double-click on a word within a webpage to view lexical information for it.
Programming
COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) is a programming language first developed for business applications in the late 1950s. It was frequently referenced by humanists interested in applying computers and algorithms to their research, though infrequently used.
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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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