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 [readability]

Tool Description Tags Platforms Pricing
AMesure A web-based system to analyse the reading complexity of French textstext complexity, readabilityWebFree
CEFRLex A web-based tool to analyse the lexical complexity of words in texts according to the CEFR scale in various languages.text complexity, readability, language learningWebFree
Coh-Metrix Coh-Metrix is a system for computing computational cohesion and coherence metrics for written and spoken texts. It allows readers, writers, educators, and researchers to instantly gauge the difficulty of written text for the target audience.cohesion, coherence, readability, textual analysisWebFree
FLAIR (2.0) An online tool for language teachers and learners that analyzes grammatical constructions and readability on the fly.constructions, readabilityWebFree
Flesh PC Calculating Flesh-scoresreadability, statisticsWindowsFree
Readability Analyzer A tool for generating various readability statisticsreadability, statisticsWindowsFree
Readability Webfx A tool to check how easy or difficult (readability) a given text is.readabilityWebFree
Wordless An Integrated corpus tool With multilingual support for the study of language, literature, and translation.concordancer, text analysis, statistics, readabilityWindows, Mac, Linux, PythonFree, Open Source

Last Updated: February 29, 2024.

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