Tools

Natural Language Processing

Trend Miner

Trend Miner is a tool designed to enable portable open-source real-time methods for cross-lingual mining and summarizing of large-scale stream media. It combines elements from natural language processing, knowledge-based reasoning, machine learning, economics and political science. It is designed to access and interpret data from sources such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter.

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Visualization

Textal

Textal is a text analysis app for the iPhone and iPad offered by the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. It creates word clouds from texts, websites, tweets and documents, then allows users to explore the statistics and relationships between words in the text. As a tool, it is intended as an introduction to to text analysis while expanding the functionality traditionally implemented in word clouds.

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Transana

Transana is a free, open source program offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Education Research for transcribing and analyzing large collections of video and audio data aimed at academic researchers. It enables users to manually transcribe in a variety of levels of detail, identify and access analytically significant sections of their data, manage collections, organize video clips into categories, apply keywords to sections or clips, generate graphical or textual reports, data mine and share markup.

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Visualization

NVivo

NVivo is a commercial software package for creating workspaces and corpuses. Its features include importing YouTube videos and comments, social media posts and discussions, web page and PDF capture, multiple language support and support for a wide variety of data formats such as spreadsheets, images, database tables and so on. Users can query their data in a variety of ways, annotate, cross-link and visualize connections, ideas and findings with charts, maps and models

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English Metrics

English Metrics is a free tutorial on English metrics, first written in Hypercard and maintained in a StackRunner version for both OS X and Windows environments. It traces the process of scanning iambic pentameter, and includes reference and exercise material for a range of metrical patterns.

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Natural Language Processing

The Scandroid 1.1

The Scandroid is a free program released under the GNU Public License for OS X and Windows environments designed to scan English verse in iambic and anapestic meters, either from a text file or entered by hand. The program explains its process as it scans the text, such as identifying syllables or lexical stresses, or dividing lines into feet, so users can learn about its analysis in addition from its output.

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Natural Language Processing

Prose (Virtual Muse)

Prose is a free program for OS X and Windows written in Python and designed to generate random sentences. Originally described in Charles O. Hartman's book Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry , it illustrates one approach to using computer programs as adjuncts to the process of composing poetry.

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Analysis

Concord, the Interactive Concordance Generator (Virtual Muse)

Concord is a free concordance generator written in Python for OS X and Windows XP (a new Windows version is forthcoming). It generates a KWIC concordance entry from a plain-text file for any word or phrase and permits sorting in a variety of ways. Concord can handle large text files, and preliminary testing with the modern Greek alphabet shows it supports non-Latin alphabets. This tool is described in Chris O. Hartman's book Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry .

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InTEXT

InTEXT is a legacy, commercial suite of programs designed to supplement web search, intranet management and accomplish variety of document generation, search and manipulation functions. It includes natural language query, full-text search and retrieval and an intelligent document organizer. It runs in Windows NT and UNIX.

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Visualization

MAXQDA

MAXQDA is a commercial software package for facilitating qualitative and mixed methods research. It includes a graphical interface for organizing and categorizing data, and can import data in a wide variety of formats, including web formats, images, audio and video and spreadsheets. Data can be encoded in several ways, such as keywords, colours or symbols. It includes visualization and report generation.

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