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WordSmith

WordSmith Tools is a commercial integrated suite of programs designed to analyze word behaviour in a text. It can be used to generate a list of all words or word clusters, concord, find keywords and more. This tool is recommended for publishers, language teachers and students, and language researchers. 

RapidMiner

RapidMiner is an open source data mining tool with a GUI interface, available in both a free, unsupported 'community version' and a for-pay, fully supported 'enterprise edition'. It utilizes a standardized XML interchange format for processing, and is compatible with common relational databases and spreadsheet applications.

GeoTime

GeoTime is a tool for visualizing complex event-related data available for purchase. It can simultaneously visualize geospatial, temporal and link data to display activities and events. Data can be imported from ArcGIS or Microsoft Excel.

Pundit
Pundit is a cloud service that allows users to 'take notes' on web documents, like a web page or a PDF file. It consists of a set of components, amongst them the Annotator, a free extension for the Google Chrome browser used by users to create the annotations. Annotations can be highlights of text parts or comments, applied either on a selection of the text or on the whole document. It is also possible to create annotations to tag a selected text or an entire web page. Pundit supports semantic annotations, real RDF triples (subject - predicate -> object) to specify formal, structured and reusable statements associated to the annotated content.
ATLAS.ti

ATLAS.ti is a tool for systematic qualitative data analysis released under a for-pay license. It offers multi-window frames, overviews generated through interactive network views utilizing visual interconnections, and cloud views and reports. A free demo version is also availalble, and does not include a time limit. This tool was first developed in 1989 and has been in continous development since. The web edition has been available since 2002.

Diction

Diction is a text analysis program for purchase, designed to determine the tone of a text, and generate reports and statistical analysis from it. DICTION versions are available for Windows® on a PC and Mac®.

DiscoverText

DiscoverText is a cloud-based textual analytics tool available for purchase. It is designed to collect data from sources such as social media, blogs and a variety of document formats, and generate tag clouds and reports from the resulting corpus.

Concordance

Concordance is a commerical text analysis and concordance tool originally developed for the Humanities (formerly available via the University of Dundee School of Humanities). It offers features for text analysis, word lists, indexes, full concordances, word frequencies and more. A free trial version is available.

Collate: Interactive Collation of Large Textual Traditions

Collate was a program designed for scholars concerned with the difficulties of medieval vernacular traditions. It aimed to help scholars with the preparation of critical editions, and could collate up to a hundred texts. Collate was also capable of handling marked up text. It was available for Macintosh only, and could be purchased directly from its creator.

Micro-OCP

Micro-OCP (Oxford Concordance Program) was a major and historically important textual analysis tool for microprocessor computers. It enabled users to generate concordances, word lists and indexes, in addition to facilitating text markup in COCOA or other markup languages. Micro-OCP was written in FORTRAN, ran primarily in a DOS environment and could be ported to other operating systems including UNIX.