A hopefully comprehensive list of currently 286 tools used in corpus compilation and analysis.
This list is kept up to date by its users. Hence, please feel free to contribute by suggesting new tools.
You can also make suggestions, e.g., corrections, regarding individual tools by clicking the ✎ symbol. As this is a non-commercial side (side, side) project, checking and incorporating updates usually takes some time.
There is also a comprehensive list of all tags in the database.
| Tool | Description | Tags | Platforms | Pricing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BNCWeb ✎ | BNCweb is a web-based client program for searching and retrieving lexical, grammatical and textual data from the British National Corpus (BNC). | analysis, concordancer | Web | Free |
| CATMA (Computer Assisted Text Markup and Analysis) ✎ | An undogmatic, complex annotation and analysis package. | markup, analysis, visualization, annotation | Web | Free |
| EXMARaLDA ✎ | Tool for transcription, annotation, corpus analysis of spoken data | transcription, annotation, analysis | Free | |
| KorAP ✎ | A complex platform for corpus analysis developed at the IDS in Mannheim | analysis, multilevel, multi-layer | Web | Free, Open Source |
| Praaline ✎ | Praaline is a system for metadata management, annotation, visualisation and analysis of spoken language corpora. | speech, prosody, spoken, annotation, concordancer, search, visualization, converter, analysis | Windows, Mac, Linux | Free / Open Source (GPL3) |
| Sketch Engine ✎ | A corpus manager and text analysis software developed by Lexical Computing. | annotation, concordancer, tagging, sampling, search, visualization, wordlists, keywords, compilation, text analysis, n-grams, collocation, statistics, segmentation, analysis, crawler, parallel, colligation, annotations, tokenization, query, ngrams, boilerplate remover, comparison, frequency analysis, information retrieval, data, sentence boundary, corpus creation, duplicate remover, regex, thesaurus, meta modelling, dictionary, text-processing, xml, frequency, trends patterns, web-based, collocates, collocation analysis, word cloud, coocurence, KWIC, corpus management, multilingual, NLP, diachronic analysis, term extraction, keyword extraction, bilingual term extraction | 30-day free trial then starts at 4.83 €/month | |
| FreeTxt ✎ | A corpus-based toolkit designed to support the systematic analysis and visualisation of free-text data (e.g. questionnaire and survey responses). | analysis, visualisation, surveys, sentiment, semantic, bilingual | Web | Free |
Last Updated: July 04, 2025.
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