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 [parser]

Tool Description Tags Platforms Pricing
almaneser / SALTA Semantic Parser and PoS Tagger for Englishparser, pos tagger, taggingFree (with licence agreement)
BFSU Stanford Parser A simple parserparserWindowsFree
Link Grammar Parser A syntactic parser of English, Russian, Arabic and Persian (and others), based on Link Grammar.parser, syntax, grammarLinux, Mac, WindowsFree
MaltOptimizer A system for parser optimization using the open-source system MaltParser.parser, dependency parsingWindows, Mac, LinuxFree
MaltParser A system for data-driven dependency parsing, which can be used to induce a parsing model from treebank data and to parse new data using an induced model. parser, dependency parsingWindows, Mac, LinuxFree
TurboParser Multilingual dependency parser with linear programmingparserFree
Tweet NLP Tweet tokenizer, PoS Tagger, hierarchical word clusters, and a dependency parser for tweets, along with annotated corpora and web-based annotation tools. Clusters: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ark/TweetNLP/cluster_viewer.html pos tagger, tokenizer, parserFree
UralicNLP NLP tools (primarily) for Uralic languagesuralic, parser, pos tagger, tagging, inflection, morphological taggerLinux, Mac, WindowsFree

Last Updated: February 29, 2024.

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