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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Tools [query]

Tool	Description	Tags	Platforms	Pricing
Coquery ✎	A free corpus query tool to search, analyze, and visualize corpora	query, visualization	Linux, Mac, Windows	Free
Emdros ✎	A database engine fpr analyzed and annotated text.	database, annotation, query	Windows, Linux, Mac	Free, Open Source
Query Tool for the Edenburgh Associative Thesaurus ✎	A query tool for the EAT	query, thesaurus	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

Last Updated: March 10, 2025.

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