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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. 

WEAVE (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment)

WEAVE (Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment) is a web-based visualization platform offered by the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. It is designed to visualize any data for any purpose, and to accommodate novice and advanced users alike. It includes the ability to integrate, disseminate and visualize data at nested levels of geography. WEAVE is currently in beta. Both a web-based demo and a download version are available.

XSugar

XSugar is a tool designed to manage dual syntaxes when working with XML documents, developed by the Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University. From a user-provided specification, XSugar translates between XML syntaxs, and makes statistical checks to ensure transformations will be reliably bidirectional and contain valid syntax in accordance with the schema.

Abbot

Abbot is a free tool for converting multiple XML texts with multiple markup schema into a common interoperable file, offered by the MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge) Project. It can also read an XML schema file and output procedures, and use them to convert other files into valid XML in alignment with the target schema. While Abbot focusses on TEI, it has been designed to flexibly accomodate other standards and can transform texts into any XML schema required.

TACT (Text Analysis Computing Tools)

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.

SimpleTCT

SimpleTCT (Simple Text Comparison Tool) is a free Java-based text comparison tool offered by Open Digital Arts & Humanities Tools (OpenDAHT). It offers a simplified management environment that enables users to display .rtf files, in which they may define themes, highlight passages and add researcher notes. The modified document can then be exported for later use.

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.

GINGER II

GINGER II is a word-sense disambiguator for English, offering a new approach to the algorithm developed for GINGER I. It directly extracts semantic disambiguation rules from dictionary example phrases, and semantically tags, syntactically parses and disambiguates those examples. This legacy tool has no affiliated web site and is no longer available.

Micro-EYEBALL

Micro-EYEBALL is a microprocessor version of the English language parser developed in the 1970s. This historically important legacy tool could also provide statistical descriptions of many linguistic features of a text. This tool is no longer available, and does not have a web presence.

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.