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TACT (Text Analysis Computing Tools)

TACT (Text Analysis Computing Tools) is a historically important text analysis and retrieval system that was developed from 1986 to 1989 at the University of Toronto in cooperation with IBM and remained in use into the 1990s. It was designed to run in MS-DOS and permitted inquiries on text databases in a number of European languages. Originally available on two 1.44MB floppy disks, the full fileset is now available for free download.

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SimpleTCT

SimpleTCT (Simple Text Comparison Tool) is a free Java-based text comparison tool offered by Open Digital Arts & Humanities Tools (OpenDAHT). It offers a simplified management environment that enables users to display .rtf files, in which they may define themes, highlight passages and add researcher notes. The modified document can then be exported for later use.

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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.

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Concordance

Concordance is a commerical text analysis and concordance tool originally developed for the Humanities (formerly available via the University of Dundee School of Humanities). It offers features for text analysis, word lists, indexes, full concordances, word frequencies and more. A free trial version is available.

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Natural Language Processing

GINGER II

GINGER II is a word-sense disambiguator for English, offering a new approach to the algorithm developed for GINGER I. It directly extracts semantic disambiguation rules from dictionary example phrases, and semantically tags, syntactically parses and disambiguates those examples. This legacy tool has no affiliated web site and is no longer available.

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Visualization

Pattern (CLiPS)

Pattern (CLiPS) is a web mining module for Python designed for computational linguistic and psycholinguistic research. It integrates tools for data retrieval from search engines, social media, web spiders and individual websites, and can accomplish text analysis, natural language processing and data visualization.

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INTEX

INTEX is a linguistic development environment active until 2005. It includes large-coverage dictionaries and grammers, can parse texts of several million words in real-time, and tools to create and maintain large-coverage lexical resources, morphological and syntactic grammars, build lemmatized concordances and indices of large texts and identified semantic units.

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Natural Language Processing

NETMET

NETMET is a tool for generating and interpreting metaphors designed to run in DOS. Though this tool is no longer under development, it is still available for download. It includes a number of sample input metaphor files and is designed to be modified and improved as needed by the user.

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Natural Language Processing

Micro-EYEBALL

Micro-EYEBALL is a microprocessor version of the English language parser developed in the 1970s. This historically important legacy tool could also provide statistical descriptions of many linguistic features of a text. This tool is no longer available, and does not have a web presence.

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Collate: Interactive Collation of Large Textual Traditions

Collate was a program designed for scholars concerned with the difficulties of medieval vernacular traditions. It aimed to help scholars with the preparation of critical editions, and could collate up to a hundred texts. Collate was also capable of handling marked up text. It was available for Macintosh only, and could be purchased directly from its creator.

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