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Summarizer - HTML (TAPoRware)

This tool creates a summary of statistical information on a given document, and enables the user to select what types of information to display in the summary. The options include high frequency words, sentences with high frequency words, high frequency word context, collocation and element/text distribution. XML 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.

Summarizer - XML (TAPoRware)

This tool creates a summary of statistical information on a given document, and enables the user to select what types of information to display in the summary. The options include high frequency words, sentences with high frequency words, high frequency word context, collocation and element/text distribution. 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.

Summarizer - Plain Text (TAPoRware)

This tool creates a summary of statistical information on a given document, and enables the user to select what types of information to display in the summary. The options include high frequency words, sentences with high frequency words, high frequency word context, collocation and element/text distribution. HTML and XML versions are also available within the TAPoRware toolsets.

This tool’s functionality has been incorporated into Voyant available online at www.voyant-tools.org.

SIMILE Widgets: Gadget

Gadget, a part of the SIMILE Widgets family of tools, is an open source command line XML inspector for generating useful summaries from large amounts of well-formed XML data. It is particularly valuable when exploring, migrating or cleaning XML, in addition to evaluating schema emergence. This tool require a Java 1.4 or later compatible virtual machine and Maven 2.0 or above to run.

Gadget is no longer maintained, but information about it is still available via the Internet Archive.

CATPAC

CATPAC is a program available for purchase designed to summarize a text's main ideas. It is multilingual and primarily aimed at researchers in the sciences, and can handle large volumes of text. Text must be formatted in ASCII or RTF.

The CATPAC website is no longer available or maintained as of 2014. An archived version of the site and its information can be viewed via the Internet Archive.

Tropes

Tropes is a legacy commercial text analysis tool now available for free. It is designed for natural language processing and semantic classification, including chronological analysis of sequential pieces of text and summarization. It includes a graphical interface and can generate a variety of hypertext-based graphs.

Yoshikoder

Yoshikoder is a free, open source cross-platform content analysis program. It works with text documents to apply basic content analysis in any language, examine KWIC, generate summaries and generate content analysis dictionaries.

TABARI (Text Analysis By Augmented Replacement Instructions)

TABARI (Text Analysis By Augmented Replacement Instructions) is a legacy open-source successor to the KEDS program, written in C++ and maintained online to the present in an OS X edition. It runs in the Terminal command prompt, and is designed for analyzing short news stories such as wire service reports. It can determine who is acting against whom, the action and extract the date of the release.

REDUX

REDUX was a natural language processing program for making generalizations from cases such as case studies, legal cases, case histories and so forth. It searched for repeated patterns, and was presented as a metalanguage for the analysis of the behavior of types.