Google Directory
Directory
  Directory Help
Search only in ToolsSearch the Web  

Tools
  Science > Social Sciences > Methodology > Qualitative > Tools   Go to Directory Home  

Categories
Data Resources (15)
Full Text (5)
Interview Transcription (503)
Related Categories:
    Business > Management > Management Science > Management Information Systems  (626)
    Computers > Software > Information Retrieval > Fulltext  (28)
    Reference > Knowledge Management > Knowledge Discovery > Text Mining  (19)
    Reference > Libraries > Library and Information Science > Software  (121)
    Science > Math > Statistics > Software  (209)
    Science > Social Sciences > Economics > Econometrics > Software  (32)
    Science > Social Sciences > Linguistics > Computational Linguistics > Corpus Analysis > Tools  (2)
    Science > Social Sciences > Methodology > Grounded Theory  (60)

Web Pages
Viewing in Google PageRank order               View in alphabetical order
  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.
  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.
  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.
  Concordance http://www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/
[Win] Text analysis software. Presentation, screenshots and downloads.
  Atlas.ti http://www.atlasti.de/
[Win] Software developed by Thomas Muhr for grounded theory, anthropology and sociological studies.
  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).
  Transana http://www.transana.org/
[Win] Transcription and analysis of audio and video data. Presentation, downloads and bulletin boards.
  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.
  Research Ware http://www.researchware.com/
[Mac / Win] Presentation of HyperResearch, downloadable demo versions and events.
  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).
  Athelstan http://www.athel.com/
[Mac / Win] ParaConc and MonoConc are software for corpus-based studies of concordances among different languages.
  http://www.maxqda.com/ http://www.maxqda.com/
[Win] Processing of user-coded text segments (previously WinMax). Presentation, download trial version, papers and conferences.
  Weft QDA http://www.pressure.to/qda/
[Win / Linux] A free, open-source tool for qualitative analysis of text documents.
  http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~unitex/ http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~unitex/
[Unix / Win / Mac OS X] Corpus Processor conforming to Unicode and developed in Java by Sébastien Paumier. Parsing, pattern matching and disambiguation [GPL - Free Software].
  http://www.orgnet.com/ http://www.orgnet.com/
Social network analysis software by Valdis Krebs.
  http://www.intext.de/concluse.htm http://www.intext.de/concluse.htm
[Dos, run also under OS/2 Win] Multivariate statistical program and constrained cluster analysis by Hans Bardeleben.
  http://www.intext.de/ http://www.intext.de/
[Dos, run also under Win] Language and content analysis freeware by Harald Klein.
  http://www.dfki.de/~kipp/anvil/ http://www.dfki.de/~kipp/anvil/
Michael Kipp's tool to annotate video files [Free Software].
  TAMS Analyzer http://tamsys.sourceforge.net/
[Unix / Linux / Mac OS X] TAMS Analyzer is an opensource qualitative analysis tool. It supports complex hierarchical codes, multimedia support, and project synchronization.
  The Ethnograph http://www.qualisresearch.com/
[Win] Software processing qualitative data by textsegments coded by the user.
  GlossaNet http://glossa.fltr.ucl.ac.be/
[www] Morphological, lexical, syntactical and thematical information retrieval in Web sites of newspapers.
  Kwalitan http://www.kwalitan.net/engels/
[Win] CAQDAS based on user-coded text segments. Download, prices and discussion forum.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  IdeaWorks http://www.ideaworks.com/
[Win] Solutions for social scientists. Home of Qualrus and Methodologist's Toolchest.
  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.
  http://www.ideaworks.com/qualrus/ http://www.ideaworks.com/qualrus/
[Win] QDA program for text, pictures, audio and video documents. Brochure, demo and screenshots.
  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.
  Semantic-Knowledge http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/
[Win] Presentation of content analysis tools : Tropes, Zoom, Index. Software. Guidelines, manual, news, customers, and free download.
  NetMiner http://www.netminer.com/
Exploratory network data analysis and visualization : web-based and downloadable demo, forum.
  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).
  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)
  Qual-Software http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/qual-software.html
E-mail discussion group about CAQDAS Project (1998-today).
  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).
  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].
  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].
  WinMax - archives http://www.winmax.de/
Qualitative method processing user-coded text segments (now called MaxQDA).
  Social Science Automation http://www.socialscienceautomation.com/
[Win] Michael Young and Margaret Hermann propose their Profiler tools. Articles on leaders profiling.
  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.
  PCAD 2000 http://www.gb-software.com/
[Win] Software devoted to psychiatric diagnosis.
  Code-A-Text http://www.code-a-text.co.uk/
[Win] Presentation of the software, available questionnaire to collect data.
  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].
  Idea Rover http://www.idearover.com/
This software supports the organisation of source documents. Prestentation, screenshots and download.
  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.
  TextGrab http://www.textgrab.com/
[Win HP-UX] Websites downloader segmenting the text automatically (prepares the text for seamless processing with TextQuest).
  http://www.aquad.de/ http://www.aquad.de/
[Win] Presentation, download demo, manual and references.
  http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/~turenne/beluga.html http://genome.jouy.inra.fr/~turenne/beluga.html
[Win] Datamining and cluster extraction tool by Nicolas Turenne in scientific literature corpus exploration. Manual and free download.
  http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/~rostek/ http://www.ipsi.fraunhofer.de/~rostek/
Lothar Rostek presents tools developed for content analysis: Tatoe, A Smalltalk Frame Kit and TerminologyFramework.
  Text analysis computing tools http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/tact/
[Dos] TACT is a text-analysis and retrieval system.
  http://pweb.cc.sophia.ac.jp/britto/rls/ http://pweb.cc.sophia.ac.jp/britto/rls/
[Win] Program to create and sort lists of words, phrases and sentences. Presantation, screenshot, download and application on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
  TextPack http://www.gesis.org/en/software/textpack/
[Win] Content and lexicometrics software, description and screenshots in PDF.

Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

Modified by Google - ©2009 Google
Advertise with Us - Jobs, Press, Cool Stuff...