A hopefully comprehensive list of currently 280 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AntConc ✎ | Corpus analysis toolkit | wordlists, concordancer, keywords | Linux, Mac, Windows | Free |
| Cortext Manager ✎ | A scriptable "ecosystem" for modeling and exploring corpora. Especially useful for creating topic models and co-occurence networks. | NER, topic models, visualization, word2vec, collocation, keywords | Web | Free |
| Keyword Plus ✎ | A keyword generation/analysis tool | keywords | Windows | Free |
| KWords ✎ | A tool for keyword identification and analysis. | keywords, CADS, concordancer, collocation analysis | Windows, Linux, Mac | Free |
| LancsBox ✎ | The Lancaster Desktop Corpus Toolbox; Software package for the analysis of language data and corpora | collocation, frequency analysis, keywords | Java | Free (CC) |
| OneClick Terms ✎ | An online term extractor with monolingual and bilingual term extraction capabilities. | keywords, term extraction, bilingual term extraction | Web | Free (limited version), 4.83€ / month |
| 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 | |
| The Prime Machine ✎ | A user- and mobile-friendly corpus analysis toolkit (primarily concordancing) initially designed for English language teaching. | concordancer, language teaching, wordlist, keywords, efl, esl | MacOS, Window, iOS, Android | Free |
| Wmatrix ✎ | Tool for corpus analysis and comparison. Provides access to CLAWS and USAS. | wordlists, concordancer, pos tagger, semantic tagger, keywords, web-based | Web | £50 per username per year |
| WordCruncher ✎ | A tool for searching, studying, and analyzing digital texts and corpora. The tool has been tested for corpora up to a billion words. | concordancer, wordlists, collocates, n-grams, keywords, key phrases, ebooks | Windows, Mac, iOS | Free |
| Wordsmith ✎ | One of the most established corpus toolkits providing a variety of functionality | concordancer, wordlists, statistics, keywords | Windows | 60€ per licence |
Last Updated: February 29, 2024.
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