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Mandala Browser

Mandala Browser is a rich-prospect browsing interface for exploring a data set in .txt, .rft, .pdf, .csv or .xml format. Searches can be constrained by columns or fields. A version of this tool is also available in the Voyant toolset.

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Natural Language Processing

HyperPo

HyperPo is an important legacy tool, developed as the first web-based text analysis tool aimed at humanities scholars available from 1996 through 2006. Users could input a web address, upload a file or directly enter text for analysis. HyperPo's interface was available in both English and French. Though no longer available for use, a capture of HyperPo can be viewed through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.

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PRORA

PRORA was a historically important set of six interrelated programs for creating computerized concordances, first released in the 1960s. It output on punched cards, could be used for any language represented by the Latin alphabet, and also had functions for generating word lists and annotating texts. Glickman and Staalman desgined PRORA to reduce the requirement for researchers to learn computers to use them in their literary studies.

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SCAN

SCAN was a conversational programming language available in the 1970s for text analysis. It was specific to text processing and could be used divide a text into sentences or words or split on separators. It was capable of running counts on a text, printing particular sentences, checking whether a particular word has occured, matching word-patterns or finding alliterations.

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Natural Language Processing

CLAS (Computerized Language Analysis System)

CLAS (Computerized Language Analysis System) was an important historic text analysis system available in the 1970s. It was written in PL/I for IBM 360/370 punch card machines and performed standard statistical tests and concordances on natural language texts.

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SATO (Systeme d'analyse des textes par ordinateur)

SATO (Systeme d'analyse des textes par ordinateur) is a longstanding historic text analysis system, now available as a free, web-based tool. Users can either draw off SATO's corpus or upload their own for analysis, and the texts for analysis may be in French, English or Spanish. It can perform standard text analysis functions such as word frequencies, comparisons, tokenizing and keyword in context, and has predefined filters for searches.

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INL BlackLab

From the official BlackLab site: "BlackLab is a corpus retrieval engine built on top of Apache Lucene. It allows fast, complex searches with accurate hit highlighting on large, tagged and annotated, bodies of text. It was developed at the Institute of Dutch Lexicology (INL) to provide a fast and feature-rich search interface on our historical and contemporary text corpora. BlackLab is licensed under the Apache License 2.0." BlackLab is not an end-user application, but an extension to Apache Lucene. It requires programming experience to use. Several sites have so far been built using BlackLab. The BlackLab FAQ at https://github.com/INL/BlackLab/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions lists several of these. BlackLab is very useful as search engine for morphologically adorned corpora. The principal search language syntax is similar to that of traditional corpus search engine tools such as the Corpus Workbench or the Sketch Engine.

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The Chicago Homer

The Chicago Homer is a multilingual database that uses the search and display capabilities of electronic texts to make the distinctive features of Early Greek epic accessible to readers with and without Greek. Except for fragments, it contains all the texts of these poems in the original Greek. In addition, the Chicago Homer includes English and German translations, in particular Lattimore's Iliad, James Huddleston's Odyssey, Daryl Hine's translations of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns, and the German translations of the Iliad and Odyssey by Johan Heinrich Voss. Through the associated web site Eumaios users of the Chicago Homer can also from each line of the poem access pertinent Iliad Scholia and papyrus readings.

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Visualization

Text Variation Explorer (TVE)

Text Variation Explorer (TVE) is a Java tool for text visualization. TVE enables users to explore the effect of window size on a text's type-token ratio, proportion of hapax legomena and average word length; it can also cluster text fragments based on principal component analysis and has text comparison features. TVE is in beta and is presented 'as is'.

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Pliny

Pliny was a tool for working with annotations when conducting personal scholarly research, and can be used with both digital and print materials. It also had data manangement and organizational features, and was designed to facilitate reading, reacting to that reading and forming an interpretation. Pliny stored all data on the user's computer rather than remotely on the web.

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