Gephi is a free, open source interactive visualization and data exploration tool. Users can manipulate the display to uncover new facets of the data, enabling intutive exploration.

INTEX is a linguistic development environment active until 2005. It includes large-coverage dictionaries and grammers, can parse texts of several million words in real-time, and tools to create and maintain large-coverage lexical resources, morphological and syntactic grammars, build lemmatized concordances and indices of large texts and identified semantic units.

FRANTEXT is a historically and culturally important database of French literary, philosophical and technical texts with an emphasis on diversity and representation, spanning the Middle Ages to the present, and offered on a subscription basis. This resource is aimed at linguists and literary scholars in the humanities and social sciences, and is notable for its inclusion of a powerful search engine called Stella. Stella is a sophisticated NLP search suite, and includes regular expression search, lemmatization, vocabulary list and entity categorization functions.

Flemm v3.1 is a free, open source tool for lemmatizing and generating inflections for a French text.

CNRTL is a free XUI and Javascript extension for Firefox designed to enable users to access the French lexical CNRTL portal directly within their web browser. With its toolbar, users can also double-click on a word within a webpage to view lexical information for it.

Pompamo is a free, web based tool for French texts designed to detect candidates for neologisms within a text based on lexical exclusion. Users can apply the built-in lexicon or upload up to six of their own.

DériF (Dérivation en Français) is a free, web based morphological analyzer for French. It lemmatizes a text and labels each lemma, out of context, with a grammatical category (noun, verb, adjective, etc.).

FastKwic is a free concordance tool for French and English texts encoded in ISO-Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) or UTF-8. It is available for download, and compiles a user-provided lexical resource and applies it when indexing or concording a text.

The CETA (Centre pour l'Etude de la Traduction Automatique) Parser was a program developed in the 1960s that could automatically reduce Russian sentences to a string of words and provide equivalents for each in French. CETA developed its parser in conjunction with Professor Mel'chuk of Moscow.

Prospéro (PROgramme de Sociologie Pragmatique, Expérimentale et Réflexive sur Ordinateur) is a free text analysis tool aimed at scholars in the Humanities capable of complex analysis on natural language. It permits users to classify and track records or thematic sets within a text or corpus for the purpose of exploration, analysis and comparison. It identifies places in a text that display uncertainty, controversy, criticism, and enables the user to establish rule and meta-rules to separate factual statements from views and interpretations. Prospéro is particularly designed for complex cases composed of large texts containing heterogenous discourse.