Tools for Corpus Linguistics

A hopefully comprehensive list of currently 285 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 49
annotation 44
visualization 29
text analysis 20
tagging 20
pos tagger 18
wordlists 16
statistics 12
compilation 11
keywords 11
qda 10
collocation 10
lexis 8
parser 8
readability 8
tokenizer 8
frequency analysis 7
mixed methods 6
python 6
web-based 6
spoken 6
language learning 6
analysis 6
semantics 5
n-grams 5

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


Tools [frequency analysis]

Tool Description Tags Platforms Pricing
KHCoder A free software for quantitative content analysis or text mining that supports multiple languages.correspondence, collocation analysis, frequency analysisWindows, Mac, LinuxFree, Open Source
KoGra-R An R-based online tool that provides statistical measures for corpus-based frequenciesstatistics, frequency analysisWebFree
LancsBox The Lancaster Desktop Corpus Toolbox; Software package for the analysis of language data and corporacollocation, frequency analysis, keywordsJavaFree (CC)
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
Just the Word A simple web interface for BNC data concordancer, frequency analysis, BNCWebFree
CorpusMate A web-based, streamlined, and simplified language data analysis experience for younger learners.language learning, language teaching, concordancer, frequency analysis, patternWebFree
Word Frequency Analyser A web-based tool for analyzing word frequencies that also produces frequency charts and word clouds.pos tagger, tokenizer, lemmatizer, frequency analysisWebFree

Last Updated: December 30, 2024.

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