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QSR International: NVivo and XSight - http://www.qsrinternational.com/
Provides qualitative research software designed to help users organize and analyze non-numerical or unstructured data such as audio, video, photos and documents to compile, compare and make sense of their information quickly and easily. |
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Michigan Corpus of Academic Spoken English (MICASE) - http://www.lsa.umich.edu/eli/micase/micase.htm
SGML and XML tagged corpus, search engine and order form for the cd version. |
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EuroWordNet - http://www.illc.uva.nl/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 access for Spanish. |
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Concordance - http://www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/
[Win] Text analysis software. Presentation, screenshots and downloads. |
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Atlas.ti - http://www.atlasti.de/
[Win] Software developed by Thomas Muhr for grounded theory, anthropology and sociological studies. |
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WordSmith Tools - http://www.lexically.net/wordsmith/
[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). |
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Transana - http://www.transana.org/
[Win] Transcription and analysis of audio and video data. Presentation, downloads and bulletin boards. |
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http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/intex/ - http://www.nyu.edu/pages/linguistics/intex/
[Win] Integrated corpus processor by Max Silberztein. Presentation, team, applications (mainly studies in linguistics), publications (PDFs in English and French) and downloads. |
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Research Ware - http://www.researchware.com/
[Mac / Win] Presentation of HyperResearch, downloadable demo versions and events. |
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FreeLing - http://garraf.epsevg.upc.es/freeling/
[Linux] NLP set of tools including tokenizing, sentence splitting, morphological analysis and date recognition. Download, documentation and bibliography (LGPL - Free Software). |
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GlossaNet - http://glossa.fltr.ucl.ac.be/
[www] Morphological, lexical, syntactical and thematical information retrieval in Web sites of newspapers. |
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Kwalitan - http://www.kwalitan.net/engels/
[Win] CAQDAS based on user-coded text segments. Download, prices and discussion forum. |
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KWiC Finder and kfNgram - http://www.kwicfinder.com/
[Win] Key Word in Context Web Concordance web search tool by William Fletcher. Presentation, screen shots, download and forum. |
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NetVis Module - http://www.netvis.org/
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. |
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QDA Miner - http://www.provalisresearch.com/QDAMiner/QDAMinerDesc.html
[Win] User-coded segments tool by Normand Péladeau featuring coding sequence, co-occurrences, clustering, multidimensional proximity plots, correspondence analysis, heatmaps. Presentation, screenshot, download and prices. |
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IdeaWorks - http://www.ideaworks.com/
[Win] Solutions for social scientists. Home of Qualrus and Methodologist's Toolchest. |
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Swedish Morphological Society - http://www.swemorph.com/
[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. |
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http://www.ideaworks.com/qualrus/ - http://www.ideaworks.com/qualrus/
[Win] QDA program for text, pictures, audio and video documents. Brochure, demo and screenshots. |
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General Inquirer - http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~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. |
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Semantic-Knowledge - http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/
[Win] Presentation of content analysis tools : Tropes, Zoom, Index. Software. Guidelines, manual, news, customers, and free download. |
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NetMiner - http://www.netminer.com/
Exploratory network data analysis and visualization : web-based and downloadable demo, forum. |
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The Hume machine - http://www.stanford.edu/group/SHR/4-2/text/teil-latour.html
[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). |
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Actor-Process-Event Scheme (APES) - http://www.apes-tool.ch/
Visualisation of process event data and transformation to quantitative analysis. Download, documentation and references. (Free software) |
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Qual-Software - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/qual-software.html
E-mail discussion group about CAQDAS Project (1998-today). |
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TextQuest - http://www.textquest.de/
[Win] English, German and Spanish program with standardised category systems (such as Colin Martindale's), negation detection and interactive coding (following of Intext). |
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Morphix-NLP - http://morphix-nlp.berlios.de/
[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]. |
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http://www.tosmana.org - http://www.tosmana.org
[Win] Tool designed by the political scientist Lasse Cronqvist and used to perform social science research on data sets with a small number of cases (Small-n Analysis). Download, papers, and user manual [Free Software]. |
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WinMax - archives - http://www.winmax.de/
Qualitative method processing user-coded text segments (now called MaxQDA). |
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Social Science Automation - http://www.socialscienceautomation.com/
[Win] Michael Young and Margaret Hermann propose their Profiler tools. Articles on leaders profiling. |
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http://www.tlab.it/en/ - http://www.tlab.it/en/
[Win] Co-Word Mapping, Cluster Analysis and FAC (factorial analysis of correspondence) software and glossary on Concurrence and Graph Methods by Italian Franco Lancia and Marco Silvestri. |
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PCAD 2000 - http://www.gb-software.com/
[Win] Software devoted to psychiatric diagnosis. |
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Code-A-Text - http://www.code-a-text.co.uk/
[Win] Presentation of the software, available questionnaire to collect data. |
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http://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org/ - http://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org/
[BSD / Win] Ronggui Huang & Zhang Gehao build a CAQDAS upon the R statistical package [Free Software]. |
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Idea Rover - http://www.idearover.com/
This software supports the organisation of source documents. Prestentation, screenshots and download. |
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aConCorde - http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/andyr/software/aConCorde/
[WIN, Linux] Arabic and English concordance software (freeware). Full Arabic language support, including native interface. Developed in Java, therefore multi-platform. |