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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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Natural Language Processing

Diction

Diction is a text analysis program for purchase, designed to determine the tone of a text, and generate reports and statistical analysis from it. DICTION versions are available for Windows® on a PC and Mac®.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

digilib

Digilib is a web based client/server technology for images. The image content is processed on-the-fly by a Java Servlet on the server side so that only the visible portion of the image is sent to the web browser on the client side. It supports a wide range of image formats and viewing options on the server side while only requiring an internet browser with javascript and a low bandwidth internet connection on the client side. digilib enables very detailed work on an image as required by scientists with elaborate zoom features like an option to show images on the screen in their original size. digilib facilitates cooperation of scientists over the internet and novel uses of source material by image annotations and stable references that can be embedded in URLs. digilib is used in the ALCATRAZ framework of image, text and annotation tools and many other projects.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Analysis

Digital DNA

The Digital DNA (DDNA) Toolbox is a set of methods developed to support scientists in making sense of online data. In particular, it is designed for assessing the reliability of accounts and content (e.g., detecting fake and bot accounts) in online social networks (OSNs). Its main use is to detect fake and bot accounts.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Collaboration

Digital Mappa

The DM is an environment for studying and annotating images and texts. It enables users to link together images, texts, or fragments of images or texts, such as a textual annotation of an image or text. It is aimed at scholars of English and French literature, art history, and musicology, and to work with digitized Old English, Latin and Old French manuscripts, medieval maps and scrolls.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Annotating

Digitate

Digitate is a free, open source application for making notes and annotations directly on an image of a cultural artifact such as a manuscript or a painting. Images can also be grouped into projects, saved for later or exported. This application is only available for the iPad.

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

Annotating

Digress.it

Digress.it was a free, open source WordPress plugin for annotating texts on the paragraph level, particularly of article to book-length documents. It permitted blog-like threaded discussions to occur in the margins of the text, and was aimed at facilitating scholarly, literary, political and other discussions. While the main website is no longer available, Digress.it is still available via the WordPress plugin directory .

Rated 0.0 out of 5.

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Analysis

Voyant Tools

Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.
Natural Language Processing

TUSTEP

TUSTEP (Tubingen System of Text Processing Tools) is a free, open source, widely-used toolbox for text processing. It is aimed at scholarly audiences, can work with texts in both latin and non-latin scripts, and is primarily designed for humanites applications. Its modules include data capture, information retrieval, text collation, text analysis, sorting and ordering, rule-based textual manipulation, data export and typesetting. The user manual is only available in German at this time. This tool has been in continuous development since the 1960s.

Rated 5.0 out of 5.
Visualization

Wordle

Wordle is an online toy for generating word clouds using the text you provide. Text can be submitted by providing an URL or by pasting raw text into an input. The most frequent words from the text are then used as the source for the resulting visualization, where frequency is used to determine the size of each word. You may customize the output by choosing from a variety of display options (layout, font, colours) or use the randomize feature to get a random visualization. Additionally, there is built-in stop word support for many common languages, and the option to change the word case.

Rated 4.0 out of 5.

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Audio Production Software

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TATR: Text Analysis for Twitter Research

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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