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Management Information Systems :: Management Science
Fulltext :: Information Retrieval
Text Mining :: Knowledge Discovery
Software :: Library and Information Science
Software :: Statistics
Software :: Econometrics
Tools :: Corpus Analysis
Grounded Theory :: Methodology

aConCorde - [WIN, Linux] Arabic and English concordance software (freeware). Full Arabic language support, including native interface. Developed in Java, therefore multi-platform.
Meta Description: [ The website of Andrew Roberts, School of Computing, University of Leeds. Research interests: Natural Language Learning (NLL), Grammar Inference, Natual Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning, Clustering, Arabic concordance. ]

AnSWR, EZ-Text, Epi-Info, Epi-Map - Freewares used by researchers in a epidemiology program

Anvil - Michael Kipp proposes his tool to annotate video files [Free Software].

Aquad - [Win] Presentation, download demo, manual and references.

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].

Athelstan - [Mac / Win] ParaConc and MonoConc are software for corpus-based studies of concordances among different languages.
Meta Description: [ Athelstan publishes books on computer assisted language learning and corpus linguistics and sells corpus analysis (text searching) software ]

Atlas.ti - [Win] Software developed by Thomas Muhr for grounded theory, anthropology and sociological studies.
Meta Description: [ ATLAS.ti is a powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data. It offers a variety of sophisticated tools for accomplishing the tasks associated with any systematic approach to "soft" data. ]

Beluga - [Win] Datamining and cluster extraction tool by Nicolas Turenne in scientific literature corpus exploration. Manual and free download.

Code-A-Text - [Win] Presentation of the software, available questionnaire to collect data.

ConClus - [Dos, run also under OS/2 Win] Multivariate statistical program and constrained cluster analysis by Hans Bardeleben.
Meta Description: [ ConClus Clusteranalyse Bardeleben ]

Concordance - [Win] Text analysis software. Presentation, screenshots and downloads.
Meta Description: [ Concordance: software for text analysis. Gain better insight into e-texts. ]

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.

FreeLing - [Linux] NLP set of tools including tokenizing, sentence splitting, morphological analysis and date recognition. Download, documentation and bibliography (LGPL - Free Software).

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.

GlossaNet - [www] Morphological, lexical, syntactical and thematical information retrieval in Web sites of newspapers.
Meta Description: [ GlossaNet, online concordances and information retrieval in Web sites of newspapers / GlossaNet, concordance en ligne et recherche d'information dans les sites Web de journaux ]

IdeaWorks - [Win] Solutions for social scientists. Home of Qualrus and Methodologist's Toolchest.
Meta Description: [ Solutions for Social Scientists. Idea Works, Inc., are the makers of SAGrader, Qualrus, and Methodologist's Toolchest. ]

InFlow - Social network analysis software by Valdis Krebs.
Meta Description: [ InFlow 3.1 - Social and Organizational Network Mapping & Measuring Software ]

Intex - [Win] Integrated corpus processor by Max Silberztein. Presentation, team, applications (mainly studies in linguistics), publications (PDFs in english and french) and downloads.

Intext - [Dos, run also under Win] Language and content analysis freeware by Harald Klein.

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.
Meta Description: [ KWiCFinder web search agent carries out your searches automatically and produces Key Word in Content excerpts of relevant online documents. ]

LexiQuest - Natural language processing (NLP) tools.

MaxQDA - [Win] Processing of user-coded text segments (previously WinMax). Presentation, download trial version, papers and conferences.
Meta Description: [ MAXqda-Software unterstützt alle, die mit der Auswertung von Texten und qualitativen Daten befasst sind, bei der Textinterpretation und Theoriebildung. ]

Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) - SGML and XML tagged corpus, search engine and order form for the cd version.

404 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].

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.
Meta Description: [ Netvis Module - Dynamic Visualization of Social Networks,Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jonathon N. Cummings ]

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).

NVivo and NUD*IST - [Mac / Win] Qualitative software by Tom Richards (coded text segments method). Free demos.
Meta Description: [ Software for qualitative data analysis in every setting - from market research to academic and social research. Market research experts, QSR International’s products: XSight and NVivo are designed to help researchers and other people working with textual data to compile, compare and make sense ... ]

PCAD 2000 - [Win] Software devoted to psychiatric diagnosis.

QDA Miner - User coded segment tool featuring coding sequence, co-occurrences, clustering, multidimensional proximity plots, correspondence analysis, heatmaps. Presentation, screenshot, download and prices.

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.

Qual-Software - E-mail discussion group about CAQDAS Project (1998-today).

404 Qual-Software - Archives - Archives of e-mail discussion group about CAQDAS Project from 1994 to 2000.
Meta Description: [ This is our 404 page ]

Qualrus - [Win] QDA program for text, pictures, audio and video documents. Brochure, demo and screenshots.
Meta Description: [ Solutions for Social Scientists. Idea Works, Inc., are the makers of SAGrader, Qualrus, and Methodologist's Toolchest. ]

Research Ware - [Mac / Win] Presentation of HyperResearch, downloadable demo versions and events.
Meta Description: [ ResearchWare, Inc. is the pubisher of HyperRESEARCH, a software package for qualitative data analysis. Available for both Mac OS and Windows, HyperRESEARCH is a solid code-and-retrieve data analysis program, with additional theory building features provided by the Hypothesis Tester. ]

RLSort - [Win] Program to create and sort lists of words, phrases and sentences. Presantation, screenshot, download and application on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Semantic-Knowledge - [Win] Presentation of content analysis tools : Tropes, Zoom, Index. Software. Guidelines, manual, news, customers, and free download.
Meta Description: [ Semantic-Knowledge presents Tropes, Zoom, Index. Software for Semantic processing, Natural Language Search Engine, Web Mining, Knowledge Discovery, Qualitative Analysis, Text Analysis and Semantics ]

Social Science Automation - [Win] Michael Young and Margaret Hermann propose their Profiler tools. Articles on leaders profiling.
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Sphinx Development UK - Integrated solution for questionnaire design, Internet surveys, quantitative and qualitative analysis.

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.
Meta Description: [ Site of the Swedish Morphological Society. Fritz Zwicky's General Morphological Analysis is presented as a general method for non-quantified modeling, qualitative modeling, modeling complex problems. ]

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.
Meta Description: [ T-LAB Tools for Text Analysis ]

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.

Tatoe - Lothar Rostek presents tools developped for content analysis: Tatoe, A Smalltalk Frame Kit and TerminologyFramework.

Text analysis computing tools - [Dos] TACT is a text-analysis and retrieval system.

TextGrab - [Win HP-UX] Websites downloader segmenting the text automatically (prepares the text for seamless processing with TextQuest).
Meta Description: [ TextGrab, text analysis, TextQuest, web spider, offline-reader, web content mining, data mining, text mining, Harald Klein ]

TextPack - [Win] Content and lexicometrics software, description and screenshots in PDF.

TextQuest - [Win] English, German and Spanish program with standardised category systems (such as Colin Martindale's), negation detection and interactive coding (following of Intext).

The Ethnograph - [Win] Software processing qualitative data by textsegments coded by the user.

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).

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].
Meta Description: [ Tosmana, the Tool for Small-N Analysis (QCA and more) ]

Transana - [Win] Transcription and analysis of audio and video data. Presentation, downloads and bulletin boards.

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].

VBPro - [Dos] M Mark Miller develops a content analysis free software based on cooccurrences. Download, guides, bibliography, newsletter and discussion group.

Weft QDA - [Win / Linux] A free, open-source tool for qualitative analysis of text documents.

WinMax - archives - Qualitative method processing user-coded text segments (now called MaxQDA).
Meta Description: [ MAXqda-Software unterstützt alle, die mit der Auswertung von Texten und qualitativen Daten befasst sind, bei der Textinterpretation und Theoriebildung. ]

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).