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Text Mining Tools
AntConc
AntConc is a downloadable tool for collocation (analysis of words that appear together), word frequency analysis, and more.
ConText
ConText is a downloadable tool for part-of-speech tagging, network analysis, topic modeling, and more.
Voyant Tools
Voyant is a web-based platform with many text analysis tools, that include visualizations. It is recommended for beginner use, as the interface is intuitive and rich visualizations make it easy to interpret a text corpus.
Learning Resources
Antconc Tutorial on the Programming Historian
Lessons on the Programming Historian provide detailed walkthroughs on various tools. Antconc (mentioned above) is a useful tool for more in-depth analysis.
- Text Mining: A Guidebook for the Social Sciences by Online communities generate massive volumes of natural language data and the social sciences continue to learn how to best make use of this new information and the technology available for analyzing it. Text Mining brings together a broad range of contemporary qualitative and quantitative methods to provide strategic and practical guidance on analyzing large text collections. This accessible book, written by a sociologist and a computer scientist, surveys the fast-changing landscape of data sources, programming languages, software packages, and methods of analysis available today. Suitable for novice and experienced researchers alike, the book will help readers use text mining techniques more efficiently and productively.ISBN: 9781483369341Publication Date: 2016-05-25