Tools for Corpus Linguistics

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.

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Top 25 Tags

All Tags
concordancer 47
annotation 43
visualization 29
tagging 20
text analysis 20
pos tagger 18
wordlists 16
statistics 12
compilation 11
keywords 11
collocation 10
qda 10
readability 8
lexis 8
parser 8
tokenizer 8
frequency analysis 7
language learning 6
analysis 6
web-based 6
mixed methods 6
spoken 6
crawler 5
language teaching 5
xml 5

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


Tools [statistics]

Tool Description Tags Platforms Pricing
BFSU Collocator A collocation analysis toolkitcollocation, statisticsWindowsFree
Calc: Corpus Calculator A web-based tool to calculate basic corpus statistics, for example, comparing frequencies across corpora.statisticsWebFree
Chi-Square and Log Likelihood Calculator A simple tool for calculating Chi-squared and LLstatisticsWindowsFree
Flesh PC Calculating Flesh-scoresreadability, statisticsWindowsFree
KoGra-R An R-based online tool that provides statistical measures for corpus-based frequenciesstatistics, frequency analysisWebFree
Log-Likelihood and Effect-Size Calculator An online calculator for log-likelihoof and effect sizes.statisticsWebFree
Readability Analyzer A tool for generating various readability statisticsreadability, statisticsWindowsFree
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
TXM XML & TEI compatible text analysis software based on TreeTagger, the CQP search engine and the R statistical environment.text analysis, concordancer, r, statistics, search tool, tokenizer, xmlWindows,Mac,Linux,TomcatFree
UCS Toolkit A toolkit (libraries and scripts) for the statistical analysis of coocurence data.collocation, coocurence, statisticsR, PerlFree
Wordsmith One of the most established corpus toolkits providing a variety of functionalityconcordancer, wordlists, statistics, keywordsWindows60€ per licence
Wordless An Integrated corpus tool With multilingual support for the study of language, literature, and translation.concordancer, text analysis, statistics, readabilityWindows, Mac, Linux, PythonFree, Open Source

Last Updated: February 29, 2024.

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