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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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Voyant Document KWICs

Document KWICs shows a table of keywords in their context. In other words, it provides a list of certain keywords and their occurrence within a corpus or document.

Rated 4.0 out of 5.

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Word and Phrase

Word and Phrase is a free, web-based text analysis tool created by Dr. Mark Davies of Brigham Young University. Users can paste texts directly into the box provided. The tool provides a range of detailed information on a text's words and phrases, on one screen with a single search.

Rated 4.0 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.

Web development

WordPress.com

Wordpress.com provides free ad-supported hosting for basic WordPress sites, with paid options for premium features (custom domain, extra storage, custom design, no ads, etc.)

Rated 4.0 out of 5.

Analysis

Concordle

Concordle is a free, web based word cloud and concordance tool built in Javascript. It describes itself as the "not so pretty cousin of Wordle" and first debuted in 2006. Users can paste text into the provided box and generate a word cloud, concordance or list of words ordered by frequecy. It also includes a field for stop words.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

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GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering)

GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering) is free, open source software offered by the University of Sheffield since 1995. It provides a framework for users to gather a corpus, apply an ontology to it, develop markup, automate the application of the markup to the corpus and add tools such as knowledge facet search, ontology browsing or graphing.

Rated 3.0 out of 5.

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Curated lists

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Geoffrey Rockwell

Cool Voyant Tools

Not all Voyant tools show up in the default view or skin. Here is a list of some of the other tools worth trying.

4 tools

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Holly Pickering

Audio Production Software

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.

3 tools

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Jason Bradshaw

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

6 tools

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