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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACTRES Corpus Manager ✎ | A corpus compilation and analysis platform with a focus on multilingual and parallel corpora. | compilation, corpus management, annotation, multilingual | Web | Commercial |
| AntCorGen ✎ | A freeware discipline-specific corpus creation tool. | compilation, text analysis | Windows, Mac, Linux | Free |
| AntFileSplitter ✎ | A freeware text file splitting tool. | compilation | Windows, Mac, Linux | Free |
| BootCat ✎ | Tool for crawling and compiling data from the web with a list of seed words. | crawler, compilation | ||
| CLaRK ✎ | XML Based System For Corpora Development | compilation | Free (with licence agreement) | |
| Corpus Text Processor ✎ | Corpus Text Processor is a downloadable application that provides batched operations for common corpus processing tasks such as encoding or standardization. | compilation, corpus management, text processing | Windows, Mac | Free, Open Source |
| ICEweb ✎ | A tool for compiling, downloading, and analyzing web corpora in accordance with the ICE | ICE, compilation, crawler | Windows | Free |
| 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 | |
| Sub-Corpus Creator ✎ | A tool for creating sub-corpora based on search searchs and metadata | compilation | Windows | Free |
| TextDirectory ✎ | TextDirectory is a tool for aggregating text files based on various filters and transformation functions. | compilation, text-processing, python | Windows, Linux, OSX | Free, Open Source |
| Trafilatura ✎ | Trafilatura is a Python package and command-line tool which seamlessly downloads, parses, and scrapes web page data. | corpus creation, python, R, compilation, crawler, boilerplate remover, data, xml, scraping | Python | Free, Open Source |
Last Updated: March 10, 2025.
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