Tools

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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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.

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Visualization

NewRadial (INKE)

NewRadial is an interactive visualization environment from the INKE team. It is designed to permit search, sorting and manipulation of database objects, commentary on connections and associations between database objects, and offer a place for large edition projects to create curated environments, browse them and encourage secondary scholarship on them. A web version is available with a number of databases for exploration, including the Canturbury Tales, Shakespeare quartos and selected novels and poetry.

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TextGrid

TextGrid is a virtual research environment for text-based humanities scholarship. It offers a variety of tools and services for collaboratively creating, analyzing, editing and publishing texts. The TextGrid environment is split into two components, the Laboratory housing the tools and services, and the Repository for preserving reserach data and making it available to other scholars.

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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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Analysis

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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Collaboration

Virtual Lightbox

Virtual Lightbox is a Java-base tool for comparing images online developed for the academic humanities, the library and museum community, and any users who use images as an important data type. It is available as both an application, which functions as a virual whiteboard and includes peer-to-peer, and an applet, which provides a flexible environment for image comparison. Virtual Lightbox was first developed in 2000, with version 2.0 of applet released in 2004.

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