Tools

aConCorde - [WIN, Linux] Arabic and English concordance software (freeware). Full Arabic language support, including native interface. Developed in Java, therefore multi-platform.
www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/andyr/software/aConCorde/

Anvil - Michael Kipp proposes his tool to annotate video files [Free Software].
www.dfki.de/~kipp/anvil/

Aquad - [Win] Presentation, download demo, manual and references.
www.aquad.de/

Athelstan - [Mac / Win] ParaConc and MonoConc are software for corpus-based studies of concordances among different languages.
www.athel.com/

Atlas.ti - [Win] Software developed by Thomas Muhr for grounded theory, anthropology and sociological studies.
www.atlasti.de/

Beluga - [Win] Datamining and cluster extraction tool by Nicolas Turenne in scientific literature corpus exploration. Manual and free download.
genome.jouy.inra.fr/~turenne/beluga.html

Code-A-Text - [Win] Presentation of the software, available questionnaire to collect data.
www.code-a-text.co.uk/

ConClus - [Dos, run also under OS/2 Win] Multivariate statistical program and constrained cluster analysis by Hans Bardeleben.
www.intext.de/concluse.htm

Concordance - [Win] Text analysis software. Presentation, screenshots and downloads.
www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/

The Ethnograph - [Win] Software processing qualitative data by textsegments coded by the user.
www.qualisresearch.com/

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.
www.illc.uva.nl/EuroWordNet/

FreeLing - [Linux] NLP set of tools including tokenizing, sentence splitting, morphological analysis and date recognition. Download, documentation and bibliography (LGPL - Free Software).
garraf.epsevg.upc.es/freeling/

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.
www.wjh.harvard.edu/~inquirer/

GlossaNet - [www] Morphological, lexical, syntactical and thematical information retrieval in Web sites of newspapers.
glossa.fltr.ucl.ac.be/

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).
www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/teil-latour.html

IdeaWorks - [Win] Solutions for social scientists. Home of Qualrus and Methodologist's Toolchest.
www.ideaworks.com/

InFlow - Social network analysis software by Valdis Krebs.
www.orgnet.com/

Intex - [Win] Integrated corpus processor by Max Silberztein. Presentation, team, applications (mainly studies in linguistics), publications (PDFs in English and French) and downloads.
www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/intex/

Intext - [Dos, run also under Win] Language and content analysis freeware by Harald Klein.
www.intext.de/

Kwalitan - [Win] CAQDAS based on user-coded text segments. Download, prices and discussion forum.
www.kwalitan.net/engels/

KWiC Finder and kfNgram - [Win] Key Word in Context Web Concordance web search tool by William Fletcher. Presentation, screen shots, download and forum.
www.kwicfinder.com/

MaxQDA - [Win] Processing of user-coded text segments (previously WinMax). Presentation, download trial version, papers and conferences.
www.maxqda.com/

Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) - SGML and XML tagged corpus, search engine and order form for the cd version.
www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/micase.htm

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].
morphix-nlp.berlios.de/

NetMiner - Exploratory network data analysis and visualization : web-based and downloadable demo, forum.
www.netminer.com/

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.
www.netvis.org/

NVivo and NUD*IST - [Mac / Win] Qualitative software by Tom Richards (coded text segments method). Free demos.
www.qsr.com.au/

PCAD 2000 - [Win] Software devoted to psychiatric diagnosis.
www.gb-software.com/

QDA Miner - User coded segment tool featuring coding sequence, co-occurrences, clustering, multidimensional proximity plots, correspondence analysis, heatmaps. Presentation, screenshot, download and prices.
www.simstat.com/QDAMiner.htm

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.
www.provalisresearch.com/QDAMiner/QDAMinerDesc.html

Qualrus - [Win] QDA program for text, pictures, audio and video documents. Brochure, demo and screenshots.
www.ideaworks.com/qualrus/

Qual-Software - E-mail discussion group about CAQDAS Project (1998-today).
www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/qual-software.html

Research Ware - [Mac / Win] Presentation of HyperResearch, downloadable demo versions and events.
www.researchware.com/

RLSort - [Win] Program to create and sort lists of words, phrases and sentences. Presantation, screenshot, download and application on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
pweb.sophia.ac.jp/~britto/rls/

Semantic-Knowledge - [Win] Presentation of content analysis tools : Tropes, Zoom, Index. Software. Guidelines, manual, news, customers, and free download.
www.semantic-knowledge.com/

Social Science Automation - [Win] Michael Young and Margaret Hermann propose their Profiler tools. Articles on leaders profiling.
www.socialscienceautomation.com/

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.
www.swemorph.com/

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.
tamsys.sourceforge.net/

Tatoe - Lothar Rostek presents tools developed for content analysis: Tatoe, A Smalltalk Frame Kit and TerminologyFramework.
www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/~rostek/

Text analysis computing tools - [Dos] TACT is a text-analysis and retrieval system.
www.chass.utoronto.ca/tact/

TextGrab - [Win HP-UX] Websites downloader segmenting the text automatically (prepares the text for seamless processing with TextQuest).
www.textgrab.com/

TextPack - [Win] Content and lexicometrics software, description and screenshots in PDF.
www.gesis.org/en/software/textpack/

TextQuest - [Win] English, German and Spanish program with standardised category systems (such as Colin Martindale's), negation detection and interactive coding (following of Intext).
www.textquest.de/

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.
www.tlab.it/en/

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].
www.tosmana.org

Transana - [Win] Transcription and analysis of audio and video data. Presentation, downloads and bulletin boards.
www.transana.org/

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].
www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~unitex/

Weft QDA - [Win / Linux] A free, open-source tool for qualitative analysis of text documents.
www.pressure.to/qda/

WinMax - archives - Qualitative method processing user-coded text segments (now called MaxQDA).
www.winmax.de/

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).
www.lexically.net/wordsmith/