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 [semantics]

Tool Description Tags Platforms Pricing
FinMeter A tool for analyzing Finnish poetry in terms of meter, rhyme, semantics, metaphors etc.lexical analysis, rhetorical analysis, poem analysis, metaphor interpretation, metaphor identification, semantics, metaphors, finnishLinux, Mac, WindowsFree
Textplot A tool for mapping a document into a network of terms in order to visualize the topic structure.visualization, network analysis, semantics, graphsPythonFree, Open Source
UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS) An automatic semantic tagger for different languages (e.g., English, Chinese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish).semantic annotation, tagging, semanticsFree
wordspace An R package for distributional semanticssemantics, distributional semantics, RRFree
BabelNet A multilingual encyclopedic dictionary featuring a semantic network/ontology.dictionary, ontology, semantics, NLPWebFree

Last Updated: February 29, 2024.

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