DocuBurst is a free web-based visualization tool for exploring the contents of a text.  Visitors can upload their own text or view those provided by others. DocuBurst presents an interactive chart called a ‘radial sunburst’ diagram which organizes the nouns extracted from the user-supplied text based on their meaning, and colours them based on frequency, revealing common themes in the text.  The visualization also shows the proper nouns (e.g. character names) in a linked word cloud. The visualization may be zoomed, filtered, or refocused to target types of words of interest (e.g. “animal” words or “feeling” words).  The visualization also provides a comparison tool to contrast word use across two documents.  DocuBurst views can be bookmarked, annotated, shared, and embedded in your own website.

Dynamic Table of Contexts is a free tool for supplementing a traditional table of contents for a text. It allows users to add or subtract index items based on XML encoding. This tool requires the creation of an account.

Mandala Browser is a rich-prospect browsing interface for exploring a data set in .txt, .rft, .pdf, .csv or .xml format. Searches can be constrained by columns or fields. A version of this tool is also available in the Voyant toolset.

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.

This prototype was produced as a proof-of-concept for the Criminal Intent project.  It allows the records of the Old Bailey Online project to be searched such that the returned results can be viewed as either a timeline or a concordance of terms.  The tool allows for reasonably complex queries to be placed and a range of different formats for the returned charts to be selected.  The tool is primarily built with Python and SQLite and makes use of the Google Chart API for some output options.

Yutzu is a collaborative tool for collecting and publishing multimedia content online, offered by the Cultureplex Lab at the University of Western Ontario. It is a web environment, designed to assist in the creative process, publication and visualization, and integrating a variety of multimedia tools. Yutzu has been used to showcase work, curate exhibitions and collections, and to facilitate teaching and learning.

TACT (Text Analysis Computing Tools) is a historically important text analysis and retrieval system that was developed from 1986 to 1989 at the University of Toronto in cooperation with IBM and remained in use into the 1990s. It was designed to run in MS-DOS and permitted inquiries on text databases in a number of European languages. Originally available on two 1.44MB floppy disks, the full fileset is now available for free download.

JConcorder is Java software for building and managing word catalogues, originally released for the Macintosh as Concorder / Le Concordeur. Amongst its features are functions for listing and cataloguing words, generating concordances, exporting concordances and graphing frequencies. The original version is also available for download, but requires a legacy Macintosh operating system to run.

VINCI is a natural language generation environment, first introduced in 1986 and with a sustained web presence. It provides linguists with a collection of linguist-friendly metalanguages for modelling natural language. It can generate sentences and words according to user specifications to assist in the study of linguistic phenomena.

KLIC (Key Letter in Context) was a program for graphological anaylsis particularly useful to scholars analyzing the language of medieval texts, created by Grace B. Logan of the Waterloo Arts Computing Office. It assisted in determining where different spelllings represent different pronunciations, and when they are variant spellings of the same word.