Tools

Visualization

DocuScope

DocuScope is a text analysis environment first developed in 1998. It contains a suite of interactive visualization tools for corpus-based rhetorical analysis. At present, DocuScope is not available outside the originating research group. However, the Working Group for Digital Inquiry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is currently working on a working environment that includes much of DocuScope's functions.

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CorpusSearch 2

CorpusSearch 2 is a free Java-based program for constructing syntactically annotated (parsed) corpora and searching them. Its functions include finding and counting lexical and syntactic patterns, correcting systemic errors and coding linguistic features.

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TAMS Analyzer

TAMS Analyzer is a tool designed to permit TAMS users to assign ethnographic codes to passages of text. It also has features for extracting, analyzing and saving the encoded information.

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TAToo (Text Analysis For Me Too)

TAToo (Text Analysis For Me Too) is a free, Flash-based widget affiliated with the TAPoR project. It is designed to be embedded into a web page, and can be run either from the user's own server or from the TAPoR server. The widget embeds TAPoR analytics into a web page, and can run analysis on text dragged and dropped into the provided field.

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PAIR (Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations)

PAIR (Pairwise Alignment for Intertextual Relations) is a free, open source sequence alignment algorithm for humanities text analysis. It identifies similar passages in a large corpus. Corpuses are indexed for future use, and incoming texts can be compared against the entire corpus.

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Google Ngram Viewer

The Google Ngram Viewer is a free, web-based tool affiliated with Google Books. It displays a graph showing how a set of user-supplied phrases have occurred in a corpus of books over a selection of years. The tool includes functions for part-of-speech tagging, ngram compositions and word dependencies, to name a few.

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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.

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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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Analysis

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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