Digital Humanities

An open source desktop application, formerly called Google Refine, for data cleanup and file format transformation.

Trifacta Wrangler is a cloud-based data preparation tool that includes many automated cleaning functions. There is a free version available for individual use.

A free desktop software for individual use, available for both Windows and Mac. This preparation tool has many visual features and can auto-profile data.

Lexos is a web-based tool designed for transforming, analyzing, and visualizing texts small to medium text collections, and is especially useful with ancient languages and languages that do not employ the Latin alphabet.

A freeware corpus analysis toolkit for concordancing and text analysis.

This resource is a freeware tool for profiling the vocabulary level and complexity of texts. AntWord Profiler is a free download available for Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux.

This web tool provides part-of-speech (POS) tagging to up to 100,000 words of text.

Developed here at Illinois, ConText is a free, open-source application for performing a variety of text analysis techniques, including network graphs and topic models, based on textual data.

When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books over the selected years.

(sunsetting) The HathiTrust Research Center enables computational analysis of the HathiTrust corpus. It is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with HathiTrust, to help meet the technical challenges researchers face when dealing with massive amounts of digital text. It develops cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge.

An open-source tool for comparing and collating multiple witnesses to a single textual work. Originally designed to aid scholars and editors examine the history of a text from manuscript to print versions, Juxta is a desktop application that offers a number of possibilities for humanities computing and textual scholarship.

​Lexos is a great resource for visualizing large text sets through a web-based platform. The site has capabilities to upload multiple files, prepare, visualize, and analyze your data. The visualization tools encompassed in this tool include word clouds, multicloud, bubbleviz, and rollingwindow graph. The analysis tools included are statistical analysis, clustering, similarity query, and topword.​

MALLET is a Java-based package for statistical natural language processing, document classification, clustering, topic modeling, information extraction, and other machine learning applications to text.

Available via TerpWare -- NVIVO is a powerful tool for qualitative analysis

Scrapy is an open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites. It is available as a free download for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X.

TAPoR is a gateway to the tools used in text analysis and retrieval. It facilitates discovery as a curated list of tools for a variety of needs.

Textalyser is an online text analysis tool that generates statistics about your text. This analysis tool provides instant results for analyzing word groups, keyword density, the prominence of word or expression, and word count.

TXM is free, open-source Unicode, XML & TEI compatible text/corpus analysis environment and graphical client.

A set of web based tools that allow researchers to carry out a variety of text analysis functions.