Tools for Corpus Linguistics

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.

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Top 25 Tags

All Tags
concordancer 49
annotation 44
visualization 29
text analysis 20
tagging 20
pos tagger 18
wordlists 16
statistics 12
compilation 11
keywords 11
collocation 10
qda 10
tokenizer 8
parser 8
readability 8
lexis 8
analysis 7
frequency analysis 7
web-based 6
python 6
spoken 6
language learning 6
mixed methods 6
transcription 5
crawler 5

There is also a comprehensive list of all tags in the database.

Tools [corpus creation]

Tool Description Tags Platforms Pricing
NoSketch Engine ✎Word sketches, thesaurus, keyword computation, corpus creationcorpus creation, semantic analysis, wordlistsFree
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 extraction30-day free trial then starts at 4.83 €/month
TextSTAT ✎Tool for creation and manipulation of linguistic data from different languagescorpus creation, concordancerWindows, GNU/Linux und MacOSFree
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, scrapingPythonFree, Open Source

Last Updated: March 10, 2025.

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