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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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etcML (Easy Text Classification with Machine Learning) is a free text analysis tool from Stanford University that uses machine learning to identify positive and negative sentiments in texts. Users can analyze their own dataset, use a dataset provided with the tool, or search Twitter for keywords of interest.
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Ethnograph is a long-standing legacy software package, maintained into the present, for quantitative analysis and data management. It contains features for search, applying metadata and conducting corpus analysis.
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EULER was a general programming language proposed as a successor to and with many of the characteristics of ALGOL 60. Extended EULER, which included string-handling facilities based on ALGOL W, was useful to humanities research for search, frequency count and related operations on text.
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Comparison Arcs is a free proof of concept tool demonstrating a method for comparing the linguistic properties of multiple documents in graphical displays. Both texts may be searched in parallel for words, lemmas and parts of speech. This project is seeking partners for further development.
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Corpus Clouds is a free Java demo of a novel interface to a corpus query engine. It aims to aid the user in exploratory search by providing visual information about frequency and distribution of search results in combination with the standard KWIC elements.
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Double Tree is a free, open source Java application providing a visualization component for supporting exploratory corpus analysis. It focuses particularly on analyzing concordances, and can also represent a KWIC for a single word by collapsing the contexts into a double sided tree. Each side of the tree can be expanded independently to browse the results.
Week of 1 Nov – 7 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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