Beluga
[Win] Datamining and cluster extraction tool by Nicolas Turenne in scientific literature corpus exploration. Manual and free download.
GlossaNet
[www] Morphological, lexical, syntactical and thematical information retrieval in Web sites of newspapers.
VBPro
[Dos] M Mark Miller develops a content analysis free software based on cooccurrences. Download, guides, bibliography, newsletter and discussion group.
Morphix-NLP
[x86] Complete Morphix-based Linux distribution on a Live bootable CD with natural language processing (NLP) tools such as thesaurus browser (WordNet), pattern matching, concordance spotter (AntConc), grammar parser and key word in context (KWIK) [Free Software].
Nodepad
[www] This set of PHP scripts and MySql database allows social researchers to handle, index and organize hand-coded text-segments as does usual CAQDAS (GPL - freesoftware).
RLSort
[Win] Program to create and sort lists of words, phrases and sentences. Presantation, screenshot, download and application on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
TAMS Analyzer
[Unix / Linux / Mac OS X] TAMS Analyzer is an opensource qualitative analysis tool. It supports complex hierarchical codes, multimedia support, and project synchronization.
Unitex
[Unix / Win / Mac OS X] Corpus Processor conforming to Unicode and developed in Java by Sébastien Paumier. Parsing, pattern matching and disambiguation [GPL - Free Software].
Aquad
[Win] Presentation, download demo, manual and references.
Athelstan
[Mac / Win] ParaConc and MonoConc are software for corpus-based studies of concordances among different languages.
Atlas.ti
[Win] Software developed by Thomas Muhr for grounded theory, anthropology and sociological studies.
AnSWR, EZ-Text, Epi-Info, Epi-Map
Freewares used by researchers in a "epidemiology program".
Text analysis computing tools
[Dos] TACT is a text-analysis and retrieval system.
Code-A-Text
[Win] Presentation of the software, available questionnaire to collect data.
aConCorde
[WIN, Linux] Arabic and English concordance software (freeware). Full Arabic language support, including native interface. Developed in Java, therefore multi-platform.
Concordance
[Win] Text analysis software. Presentation, screenshots and downloads.
Anvil
Michael Kipp proposes his tool to annotate video files [Free Software].
PCAD 2000
[Win] Software devoted to psychiatric diagnosis.
TextPack
[Win] Content and lexicometrics software, description and screenshots in PDF.
IdeaWorks
[Win] Solutions for social scientists. Home of Qualrus and Methodologist's Toolchest.
EuroWordNet
Multilingual database containing ontological and semantic relations : Objectives, Samples and License. Presentation, Screenshots and manuals of tools to exploit and represent this database (Polaris and Periscope). Free acces for spanish.
Intext
[Dos, run also under Win] Language and content analysis freeware by Harald Klein.
ConClus
[Dos, run also under OS/2 Win] Multivariate statistical program and constrained cluster analysis by Hans Bardeleben.
Tatoe
Lothar Rostek presents tools developped for content analysis: Tatoe, A Smalltalk Frame Kit and TerminologyFramework.
Qual-Software
E-mail discussion group about CAQDAS Project (1998-today).
Kwalitan
[Win] CAQDAS based on user-coded text segments. Download, prices and discussion forum.
KWiC Finder and kfNgram
[Win] Key Word in Context Web Concordance web search tool by William Fletcher. Presentation, screen shots, download and forum.
WordSmith Tools
[Win] Mike Scott's tools (includes MicroConcord) are based on lexical analysis. Publications, presentation, screen shots, download, manuals and invitation to association for language awareness (ALA).
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE)
SGML and XML tagged corpus, search engine and order form for the cd version.
FreeLing
[Linux] NLP set of tools including tokenizing, sentence splitting, morphological analysis and date recognition. Download, documentation and bibliography (LGPL - Free Software).
Qual-Software - Archives
Archives of e-mail discussion group about CAQDAS Project from 1994 to 2000.
MaxQDA
[Win] Processing of user-coded text segments (previously WinMax). Presentation, download trial version, papers and conferences.
NetMiner
Exploratory network data analysis and visualization : web-based and downloadable demo, forum.
NetVis Module
An open source web-based tool for researchers to simulate, analyze, and visualize social networks using data from online surveys, imported CSV files, and electronic discussion groups.
Architecture and Tools for Linguistic Analysis Systems (Atlas)
[Unix / Win / Mac OS X] Atlas are text, audio (level 1) and video (level 2) annotation tools (using XML-based interchange format) - [Free Software].
Intex
[Win] Integrated corpus processor by Max Silberztein. Presentation, team, applications (mainly studies in linguistics), publications (PDFs in english and french) and downloads.
InFlow
Social network analysis software by Valdis Krebs.
Weft QDA
[Win / Linux] A free, open-source tool for qualitative analysis of text documents.
QDAMiner - Qualitative analysis software
User coded segment tool featuring coding sequence, co-occurrences, clustering, multidimensional proximity plots, correspondence analysis, heatmaps. Presentation, screenshot, download and prices.
NVivo and NUD*IST
[Mac / Win] Qualitative software by Tom Richards (coded text segments method). Free demos.
The Ethnograph
[Win] Software processing qualitative data by textsegments coded by the user.
Qualrus
[Win] QDA program for text, pictures, audio and video documents. Brochure, demo and screenshots.
Research Ware
[Mac / Win] Presentation of HyperResearch, downloadable demo versions and events.
Semantic-Knowledge
[Win] Presentation of content analysis tools : Tropes, Zoom, Index. Software. Guidelines, manual, news, customers, and free download.
QDA Miner
User coded segment tool featuring coding sequence, co-occurrences, clustering, multidimensional proximity plots, correspondence analysis, heatmaps. Presentation, screenshot, download and prices.
Social Science Automation
[Win] Michael Young and Margaret Hermann propose their Profiler tools. Articles on leaders profiling.
Sphinx Development UK
Integrated solution for questionnaire design, Internet surveys, quantitative and qualitative analysis.
LexiQuest
Natural language processing (NLP) tools.
The Hume machine
[Mac] The sociological Candide software use Clustered Graphs (also called Cogntive Maps or Co-Word Mapping) to represent textual knowledge (by Geneviève Teil et Bruno Latour).
Swedish Morphological Society
[Win] Presentation of Fritz Zwicky's morphological analysis as a general method for non-quantified modeling and of a Computer Aided Scenario and Problem Evaluation Routine called Casper.
TextGrab
[Win HP-UX] Websites downloader segmenting the text automatically (prepares the text for seamless processing with TextQuest).
TextQuest
[Win] English, German and Spanish program with standardised category systems (such as Colin Martindale's), negation detection and interactive coding (following of Intext).
T-Lab
[Win] Co-Word Mapping, Cluster Analysis and FAC (factorial analysis of correspondence) software and glossary on Coocurrence and Graph Methods by italian Franco Lancia and Marco Silvestri.
Tosmana
[Win] Tool designed by the political scientist Lasse Cronqvist and used to perform social science research on data sets with a small number of cases (Small-n Analysis). Download, papers, and user manual [Free Software].
Transana
[Win] Transcription and analysis of audio and video data. Presentation, downloads and bulletin boards.
WinMax - archives
Qualitative method processing user-coded text segments (now called MaxQDA).
General Inquirer
Philip Stone's software for content analysis of textual data. Previously only for [IBM], the program goes now Java and becomes [Win / Mac / Unix / Linux] New Inquirer.
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