| Acronyms | stands for |
| QDA | Qualitative Data Analysis |
| CAQDAS | Computer Assisted (or Aided) Qualitative Data Analysis Software |
Sites in Tools
The Ethnograph
[Win] Software processing qualitative data by textsegments coded by the user.
Qual-Software - Archives
Archives of e-mail discussion group about CAQDAS Project from 1994 to 2000.
TextQuest
[Win] English, German and Spanish program with standardised category systems (such as Colin Martindale's), negation detection and interactive coding (following of Intext).
Atlas.ti
[Win] Software developed by Thomas Muhr for grounded theory, anthropology and sociological studies.
Code-A-Text
[Win] Presentation of the software, available questionnaire to collect data.
AnSWR, EZ-Text, Epi-Info, Epi-Map
Freewares used by researchers in a "epidemiology program".
WinMax - archives
Qualitative method processing user-coded text segments (now called MaxQDA).
Intext
[Dos, run also under Win] Language and content analysis freeware by Harald Klein.
NVivo and NUD*IST
[Mac / Win] Qualitative software by Tom Richards (coded text segments method). Free demos.
The Hume machine
[Mac] The sociological Candide software use Clustered Graphs (also called Cogntive Maps or Co-Word Mapping) to represent textual knowledge (by Geneviève Teil et Bruno Latour).
Research Ware
[Mac / Win] Presentation of HyperResearch, downloadable demo versions and events.
TextGrab
[Win HP-UX] Websites downloader segmenting the text automatically (prepares the text for seamless processing with TextQuest).
T-Lab
[Win] Co-Word Mapping, Cluster Analysis and FAC (factorial analysis of correspondence) software and glossary on Coocurrence and Graph Methods by italian Franco Lancia and Marco Silvestri.
NetMiner
Exploratory network data analysis and visualization : web-based and downloadable demo, forum.
Qual-Software
E-mail discussion group about CAQDAS Project (1998-today).
Kwalitan
[Win] CAQDAS based on user-coded text segments. Download, prices and discussion forum.
Intex
[Win] Integrated corpus processor by Max Silberztein. Presentation, team, applications (mainly studies in linguistics), publications (PDFs in english and french) and downloads.
GlossaNet
[www] Morphological, lexical, syntactical and thematical information retrieval in Web sites of newspapers.
Aquad
[Win] Presentation, download demo, manual and references.
MaxQDA
[Win] Processing of user-coded text segments (previously WinMax). Presentation, download trial version, papers and conferences.
RLSort
[Win] Program to create and sort lists of words, phrases and sentences. Presantation, screenshot, download and application on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Martin v2.0
[Win] Freeware for textual research.
Concordance
[Win] Text analysis software. Presentation, screenshots and downloads.
Transana
[Win] Transcription and analysis of audio and video data. Presentation, downloads and bulletin boards.
NetVis Module
An open source web-based tool for researchers to simulate, analyze, and visualize social networks using data from online surveys, imported CSV files, and electronic discussion groups.
General Inquirer
Philip Stone's software for content analysis of textual data. Previously only for [IBM], the program goes now Java and becomes [Win / Mac / Unix / Linux] New Inquirer.
InFlow
Social network analysis software by Valdis Krebs.
IdeaWorks
[Win] Solutions for social scientists. Home of Qualrus and Methodologist's Toolchest.
TextPack
[Win] Content and lexicometrics software, description and screenshots in PDF.
PCAD 2000
[Win] Software devoted to psychiatric diagnosis.
Athelstan
[Mac / Win] ParaConc and MonoConc are software for corpus-based studies of concordances among different languages.
Qualrus
[Win] QDA program for text, pictures, audio and video documents. Brochure, demo and screenshots.
LexiQuest
Natural language processing (NLP) tools.
Architecture and Tools for Linguistic Analysis Systems (Atlas)
[Unix / Win / Mac OS X] Atlas are text, audio (level 1) and video (level 2) annotation tools (using XML-based interchange format) - [Free Software].
Swedish Morphological Society
[Win] Presentation of Fritz Zwicky's morphological analysis as a general method for non-quantified modeling and of a Computer Aided Scenario and Problem Evaluation Routine called Casper.
Sphinx Development UK
Integrated solution for questionnaire design, Internet surveys, quantitative and qualitative analysis.
EuroWordNet
Multilingual database containing ontological and semantic relations : Objectives, Samples and License. Presentation, Screenshots and manuals of tools to exploit and represent this database (Polaris and Periscope). Free acces for spanish.
Unitex
[Unix / Win / Mac OS X] Corpus Processor conforming to Unicode and developed in Java by Sé�bastien Paumier. Parsing, pattern matching and disambiguation [GPL - Free Software].
Tams Analyzer
[Mac OS X] Graphical User Interface (GUI) by Matthew Weinstein for the command line [Unix and Mac] Text Analysis Markup System (TAMS) provides text segment coding and data retrieval (GPL - Free Software).
ConClus
[Dos, run also under OS/2 Win] Multivariate statistical program and constrained cluster analysis by Hans Bardeleben.
VBPro
[Dos] M Mark Miller develops a content analysis free software based on cooccurrences. Download, guides, bibliography, newsletter and discussion group.
Social Science Automation
[Win] Michael Young and Margaret Hermann propose their Profiler tools. Articles on leaders profiling.
KWiC Finder and kfNgram
[Win] Key Word in Context Web Concordance web search tool by William Fletcher. Presentation, screen shots, download and forum.
WordSmith Tools
[Win] Mike Scott's tools (includes MicroConcord) are based on lexical analysis. Publications, presentation, screen shots, download, manuals and invitation to association for language awareness (ALA).
Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE)
SGML and XML tagged corpus, search engine and order form for the cd version.
Morphix-NLP
[x86] Complete Morphix-based Linux distribution on a Live bootable CD with natural language processing (NLP) tools such as thesaurus browser (WordNet), pattern matching, concordance spotter (AntConc), grammar parser and key word in context (KWIK) [Free Software].
FreeLing
[Linux] NLP set of tools including tokenizing, sentence splitting, morphological analysis and date recognition. Download, documentation and bibliography (LGPL - Free Software).
QDA Miner
User coded segment tool featuring coding sequence, co-occurrences, clustering, multidimensional proximity plots, correspondence analysis, heatmaps. Presentation, screenshot, download and prices.
Text analysis computing tools
[Dos] TACT is a text-analysis and retrieval system.
Tatoe
Lothar Rostek presents tools developped for content analysis: Tatoe, A Smalltalk Frame Kit and TerminologyFramework.
GTAMS Analyzer
[Linux / *bsd / CygWin] GNUstep version of TAMS Analyzer. Includes all of the text analysis tools of the OSX version of TAMS Analyzer except those that work with audio and video files (free software).
Nodepad
[Linux / Win32] This set of PHP scripts and MySql database allows social researchers to handle, index and organize hand-coded text-segments as does usual CAQDAS (GPL - freesoftware). |
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