Tools for Corpus Linguistics

A hopefully comprehensive list of currently 283 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 48
annotation 44
visualization 29
tagging 20
text analysis 20
pos tagger 18
wordlists 16
statistics 12
compilation 11
keywords 11
collocation 10
qda 10
tokenizer 8
readability 8
parser 8
lexis 8
frequency analysis 7
language learning 6
analysis 6
spoken 6
python 6
mixed methods 6
web-based 6
segmentation 5
language teaching 5

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


Tools [web-based]

Tool Description Tags Platforms Pricing
Compleat Lexical Tutor A website featuring various tools and materials for data-driven language learning.vocabulary, language learning, lexis, web-based, ddlWebFree
INCEpTION A semantic annotation platform that offfers intelligent annotation assistance and knowledge managementannotation, multi-layer annotation, computer-assisted annotation, web-basedWebFree, Open Source
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
WebAnno A web-based annotation toolannotation, web-basedWebFree
Wmatrix Tool for corpus analysis and comparison. Provides access to CLAWS and USAS.wordlists, concordancer, pos tagger, semantic tagger, keywords, web-basedWeb£50 per username per year
WordMap A simple web-based word-map / wordcloud generator.visualization, web-basedWebFree

Last Updated: October 06, 2024.

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