Tools

Visualization

OrlandoVision (OVis)

An application for visualizing a specific collection of authors, and the links or associations between them. Links are determined by co-occurrence in the Orlando dataset. The current dataset consists of authors, other people associated with them, and the text entries upon which these associations are based. The application is designed in such a way that it could be extended to use other datasets as well. The display can be customized in the several ways. Node colours, shapes and sizes can be altered. More significantly, the layout of the graph can be chosen from amongst several different algorithms. As the collection is quite large, there are many filtering options available. In terms of author, the following categories can be specified: gender, author/non-author, and author nationality. The user can create complex search queries of the authors and the text, and specify a date restriction for the authors' life span. Each association in the text has been tagged with one or more semantic attributes, i.e. the type or meaning of the relation between the people. These tags have been organized into a tree, moving from general to more specific relations. Each tag in the tree can be checked/unchecked, further filtering the results. Finally, a data set and customizations can be saved as a session which can then be loaded at a later time. In addition, screenshots of the current layout can be saved to an image file.

Rated 2.0 out of 5.

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Voyant Mandala

Mandala is a visualization tool that imports “textual” files to perform analysis on the frequency and linkage of words. For example, you may import a play and find the linkage and frequency between a word and its speaker.

Rated 2.0 out of 5.

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Distribution Graph - XML (TAPoRware)

This tool creates a graphical distribution list of words found within specific XML elements. HTML and plain text versions are also available within the TAPoRware toolsets. This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org

Rated 2.0 out of 5.

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Issue Discovery

Issue Discovery is a tool for extracting the most prominent words and phrases from user-supplied URLs, texts or Issuecrawler XML result files. It is designed as a heuristic for data exploration rather than as an empirical tool.

Rated 2.0 out of 5.

Natural Language Processing

I Write Like

I Write Like is a free, web-based text analysis tool that compares a user-provided text to the prose of well-known writers using statistics, word choice and writing style analysis. It then reports on which writer the text most resembles. The tool requires at least two paragraphs of text for best results. At this time, the results are limited to the name of a writer, without offering more detailed insight into the analysis; the tool appears to be offered primarily to promote the Memoires journaling software.

Rated 1.5 out of 5.

Capture

Aggregator - Other (TAPoRware)

This tool aggregates texts/subtexts from different locations into a single text. The original texts can be from a user-specified web page or files located on one's computer. Aggregating subtexts requires all documents to share a common subtext tag, such as the <body> tag. The aggregator tool will grab the contents from the texts to form a single new text.

Rated 1.0 out of 5.

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Hypergraph - XML (TAPoRware)

Tool uses the Hypergraph Package (http://hypergraph.sourceforge.net/) to display the structure of a user-selected XML file. This tool requires jsdk1.4.2 or later; otherwise only the default hypergraph is displayed.

Rated 1.0 out of 5.

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Voyant Skin Builder

Voyant Skin Builder is a function within the larger Voyant toolset that enables users to create a customized selection and arrangement of tools with which to analyze a text. These custom skins can be saved or exported for future use.

Rated 1.0 out of 5.

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Co-Occurrence - Plain Text (TAPoRware)

This tool looks for two words a certain distance apart from one another in a plain text document, within the user-specified limits of words, sentences or lines. The results can be narrowed to only include words found within certain tags. HTML and XML versions are also available within the TAPoRware toolsets.

Rated 1.0 out of 5.

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Fixed Phrase - Plain Text (TAPoRware)

This tool locates fixed phrases of a user-chosen context length containing a specified word and displays all matching phrases in several different ways. Versions are also available for HTML and XML through the TAPoR toolset.

Rated 1.0 out of 5.