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aConCorde - [WIN, Linux] Arabic and English concordance software (freeware). Full Arabic language support, including native interface. Developed in Java, therefore multi-platform.
Actor-Process-Event Scheme (APES) - Visualisation of process event data and transformation to quantitative analysis. Download, documentation and references. (Free software)
Anvil - Michael Kipp's tool to annotate video files [Free Software].
Aquad - [Win] Presentation, download demo, manual and references.
Athelstan - [Mac / Win] ParaConc and MonoConc are software for corpus-based studies of concordances among different languages.
Atlas.ti - [Win] Software developed by Thomas Muhr for grounded theory, anthropology and sociological studies.
Beluga - [Win] Datamining and cluster extraction tool by Nicolas Turenne in scientific literature corpus exploration. Manual and free download.
Code-A-Text - [Win] Presentation of the software, available questionnaire to collect data.
ConClus - [Dos, run also under OS/2 Win] Multivariate statistical program and constrained cluster analysis by Hans Bardeleben.
Concordance - [Win] Text analysis software. Presentation, screenshots and downloads.
The Ethnograph - [Win] Software processing qualitative data by textsegments coded by the user.
EuroWordNet - Multilingual database containing ontological and semantic relations : Objectives, Samples and License. Presentation, Screenshots and manuals of tools to exploit and represent this database (Polaris and Periscope). Free access for Spanish.
FreeLing - [Linux] NLP set of tools including tokenizing, sentence splitting, morphological analysis and date recognition. Download, documentation and bibliography (LGPL - Free Software).
General Inquirer - Philip Stone's software for content analysis of textual data. Previously only for [IBM], the program goes now Java and becomes [Win / Mac / Unix / Linux] New Inquirer.
GlossaNet - [www] Morphological, lexical, syntactical and thematical information retrieval in Web sites of newspapers.
The Hume machine - [Mac] The sociological Candide software use Clustered Graphs (also called Cogntive Maps or Co-Word Mapping) to represent textual knowledge (by Geneviève Teil et Bruno Latour).
Idea Rover - This software supports the organisation of source documents. Prestentation, screenshots and download.
IdeaWorks - [Win] Solutions for social scientists. Home of Qualrus and Methodologist's Toolchest.
InFlow - Social network analysis software by Valdis Krebs.
Intex - [Win] Integrated corpus processor by Max Silberztein. Presentation, team, applications (mainly studies in linguistics), publications (PDFs in English and French) and downloads.
Intext - [Dos, run also under Win] Language and content analysis freeware by Harald Klein.
Kwalitan - [Win] CAQDAS based on user-coded text segments. Download, prices and discussion forum.
KWiC Finder and kfNgram - [Win] Key Word in Context Web Concordance web search tool by William Fletcher. Presentation, screen shots, download and forum.
MaxQDA - [Win] Processing of user-coded text segments (previously WinMax). Presentation, download trial version, papers and conferences.
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) - SGML and XML tagged corpus, search engine and order form for the cd version.
Morphix-NLP - [x86] Complete Morphix-based Linux distribution on a Live bootable CD with natural language processing (NLP) tools such as thesaurus browser (WordNet), pattern matching, concordance spotter (AntConc), grammar parser and key word in context (KWIK) [Free Software].
NetMiner - Exploratory network data analysis and visualization : web-based and downloadable demo, forum.
NetVis Module - An open source web-based tool for researchers to simulate, analyze, and visualize social networks using data from online surveys, imported CSV files, and electronic discussion groups.
NVivo and NUD*IST - [Mac / Win] Qualitative software by Tom Richards (coded text segments method). Free demos.
PCAD 2000 - [Win] Software devoted to psychiatric diagnosis.
QDA Miner - User coded segment tool featuring coding sequence, co-occurrences, clustering, multidimensional proximity plots, correspondence analysis, heatmaps. Presentation, screenshot, download and prices.
QDAMiner - Qualitative analysis software - User coded segment tool featuring coding sequence, co-occurrences, clustering, multidimensional proximity plots, correspondence analysis, heatmaps. Presentation, screenshot, download and prices.
Qualrus - [Win] QDA program for text, pictures, audio and video documents. Brochure, demo and screenshots.
Qual-Software - E-mail discussion group about CAQDAS Project (1998-today).
Research Ware - [Mac / Win] Presentation of HyperResearch, downloadable demo versions and events.
RLSort - [Win] Program to create and sort lists of words, phrases and sentences. Presantation, screenshot, download and application on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Semantic-Knowledge - [Win] Presentation of content analysis tools : Tropes, Zoom, Index. Software. Guidelines, manual, news, customers, and free download.
Social Science Automation - [Win] Michael Young and Margaret Hermann propose their Profiler tools. Articles on leaders profiling.
Swedish Morphological Society - [Win] Presentation of Fritz Zwicky's morphological analysis as a general method for non-quantified modeling and of a Computer Aided Scenario and Problem Evaluation Routine called Casper.
TAMS Analyzer - [Unix / Linux / Mac OS X] TAMS Analyzer is an opensource qualitative analysis tool. It supports complex hierarchical codes, multimedia support, and project synchronization.
Tatoe - Lothar Rostek presents tools developed for content analysis: Tatoe, A Smalltalk Frame Kit and TerminologyFramework.
Text analysis computing tools - [Dos] TACT is a text-analysis and retrieval system.
TextGrab - [Win HP-UX] Websites downloader segmenting the text automatically (prepares the text for seamless processing with TextQuest).
TextPack - [Win] Content and lexicometrics software, description and screenshots in PDF.
TextQuest - [Win] English, German and Spanish program with standardised category systems (such as Colin Martindale's), negation detection and interactive coding (following of Intext).
T-Lab - [Win] Co-Word Mapping, Cluster Analysis and FAC (factorial analysis of correspondence) software and glossary on Concurrence and Graph Methods by Italian Franco Lancia and Marco Silvestri.
Tosmana - [Win] Tool designed by the political scientist Lasse Cronqvist and used to perform social science research on data sets with a small number of cases (Small-n Analysis). Download, papers, and user manual [Free Software].
Transana - [Win] Transcription and analysis of audio and video data. Presentation, downloads and bulletin boards.
Unitex - [Unix / Win / Mac OS X] Corpus Processor conforming to Unicode and developed in Java by Sébastien Paumier. Parsing, pattern matching and disambiguation [GPL - Free Software].
Weft QDA - [Win / Linux] A free, open-source tool for qualitative analysis of text documents.
WinMax - archives - Qualitative method processing user-coded text segments (now called MaxQDA).
WordSmith Tools - [Win] Mike Scott's tools (includes MicroConcord) are based on lexical analysis. Publications, presentation, screen shots, download, manuals and invitation to association for language awareness (ALA). Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.