Concordancing
Concordle is a free, web based word cloud and concordance tool built in Javascript. It describes itself as the "not so pretty cousin of Wordle" and first debuted in 2006. Users can paste text into the provided box and generate a word cloud, concordance or list of words ordered by frequecy. It also includes a field for stop words. [Credit to TAPoR for this exceptional annotation]
Originally launched in the 1970s, CLOC is a freely downloadable program that allows users to collocate a given word. CLOC organizes and categorizes words that appear in close proximity to the user's chosen vocabulary. CLOC is also able produce word lists, and full concordances of words and phrases.
Concordance is a commercial text analysis tool that was originally designed to facilitate work in the humanities. The aim of Concordance is to assist scholars in the close and in-depth analysis of texts or languages. This flexible and powerful concordance program allows users to analyze electronic text, make words lists and full concordances, count word frequencies, find keywords and phrases, and discover stylistic writing traits.
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. [Credit to TAPoR for this exceptional annotation]
Named after an Old English phrase, WordHoard blends together the study of literary texts with the "insights and techniques of corpus linguistics". WordHoard facilitates the annotation of texts according to morphological, lexical, prosodic, and narratological criteria so they are ready for computational analysis . The greater the depth of annotation, the more supportive WordHoard is for finely grained and specific inquires. The aim of WordHoard to is reveal "new kinds of historical, literary, or broadly cultural analysis" by treating literary texts as linguistic corpora.
Word and Phrase is a free, web-based text analysis tool created by Dr. Mark Davies of Brigham Young University. Users can paste texts directly into the box provided. The tool provides a range of detailed information on a text's words and phrases, on one screen with a single search. [Credit to TAPoR for this exceptional annotation]
WordFreak is a free, open source "java-based linguistic annotation tool". WordFreak is "designed to support human and automatic annotation of linguistic data". Notably, WordFreak employs active-learning techniques for "human correction of automatically annotated data".
"TAPoRware is a set of text analysis tools that enables users to perform text analysis on HTML, XML and plain text files, using documents from the users' machine or on the web". Concordance is one of the tools developed under the TAPoR umbrella. Concordance allows users to locate specific words or phrases within the context of a chosen text document. Once the word or phrase has been selected, the program scans the document and produces a report.
TRAViz is a collation tool. As "one of the substantial tasks in the field of textual criticism" collation is an important but laborious process to conduct 'by hand'. TRAViz mechanizes this process by allowing users to textually import and visually export variations of an individual work. "TRAViz supports the collation task by providing methods to: align various editions of a text, visualize the alignment, improve the readability for Text Variant Graphs compared to other approaches, and interact with the graph to discover how individual editions disseminate".
Juxta is an "open-source tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work". Juxta was originally designed to facilitate the scholarly study of the history of a text from manuscript to print versions. Juxta has evolved into a multi-platform desktop application that "allows users to complete many of the necessary operations of textual criticism on digital texts (TXT and XML). With this software, you can add or remove witnesses to a comparison set, switch the base text at will.
