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BookLamp Labs: Suggestion Viewer

BookLamp's Suggestion Viewer is a faceted search and browser tool for finding new books based on how similar they are to another book. Users can search by either title or author and select the book to center the search on. The Suggestion Viewer then generates a radial visualization of other books similar to the central book, showing the strength of the connection by the thickness of the connecting line and characteristic ('StoryDNA'). Users can switch between StoryDNA connections via drop list, and can click on an outer book to recenter the tool on that book. BookLamp and its tools have been retired as of April 2014 and the website is no longer available. The main site has been captured by the Internet Archive ( https://web.archive.org/web/20140210212627/http://booklamp.org/ ) but this tool is not among the pages available there.

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BookLamp Labs: Sentiment Viewer

BookLamp's Sentiment Viewer is a visualization tool that graphs out a book's sentiments according to intensity and location in the text. Books to graph can be searched by title or author.

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Weka (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis)

Weka (Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis) is a free Java-based data mining workbench of machine learning algorithms, offered by the Machine Learning Group of the University of Waikato. It includes tools for data pre-processing, classification, clustering and visualization, among others. Development on Weka began in the early 1990s and it is extensively documented.

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Textometrica

Textometrica is a free, web based text analysis tool offered by HUMlab at Umeå University. Users can upload a plain-text file and examine its word frequencies, see co-occurrences, and generate visualizations and graphs.

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SIMILE Widgets: Welkin

Welkin is a free tool for visualizing complex RDF models offered for download by the SIMILE Project. Rather than permitting users to focus on specific nodes, it provides analytical views such as an overview of a dataset's connectivity or potential mappings between resources and ontologies. It runs best through Java WebStart and is compatible with Windows, OS X and Linux.

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SNOBOL (String Oriented Symbolic Language)

SNOBOL is a programming language developed in the 1960s capable of symbol and free-form string manipulation that was of particular value to early computer-based Humanities research. SNOBOL4 was the final version released by AT&T Bell Laboratories.

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FORTRAN

FORTRAN (from 'formula translating system') was a major programming language first developed by IBM in the late 1950s. While originally intended for science and engineering, with substantial drawbacks for users seeking to conduct text processing, its wide availability in academic computing centres neverthless made it an attractive choice for Humanities scholars seeking to automate research processes.

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Natural Language Processing

COMIT

COMIT was an early string processing programming language developed for IBM 700/7000 computers at MIT from the late 1950s to mid 1960s. It was particularly designed for linguistics and natural language processing, and was taught to humanists to aid their research in the 1960s.

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COBOL

COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) is a programming language first developed for business applications in the late 1950s. It was frequently referenced by humanists interested in applying computers and algorithms to their research, though infrequently used.

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ALGOL

ALGOL (Algorithmic Language) was a programming language developed in the mid 1950s and often discussed in relation to humanities research applications, such as concordances or computational linguistics.

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