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
EXPLEX (EXtracting information about Proper nouns to provide LEXical information) was a natural language processing system available in the 1990s. It was developed to create lexical entries for nouns appearing in the Wall Street Journal .
Visualization
Exploratree is a web-based library and editing application for "interactive thinking guides," which are templates useful for mind mapping, brainstorming, planning, and visualization. Originally developed for use in the classroom, to help students refine and focus their ideas, as well as manage plans to further their investigation. Thinking guides can be edited, printed, and downloaded directly from the browser.
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Express Scribe is a professional audio player software for PC or Mac that assists in the transcription of audio recordings.
Enrichment
This tool extracts text found within specific tags in an XML document. It is part of the TAPoRware toolset; an HTML version is also available. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.
Enrichment
This tool extracts texts from user-specified HTML tags, elements and attributes. There is no XML counterpart at present.
F4 eases the transcription process of audio or video recordings and you can safe about 30% of your time. You can adjust the playback speed to your personal transcription speed. Further there is a foot pedal usable to control the playback. You can set automatically time marks, speaker change or text modules.
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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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