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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.

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)

Athelstan - http://www.athel.com/
[Mac / Win] ParaConc and MonoConc are software for corpus-based studies of concordances among different languages.

Atlas.ti - http://www.atlasti.de/
[Win] Software developed by Thomas Muhr for grounded theory, anthropology and sociological studies.

Code-A-Text - http://www.code-a-text.co.uk/
[Win] Presentation of the software, available questionnaire to collect data.

Concordance - http://www.concordancesoftware.co.uk/
[Win] Text analysis software. Presentation, screenshots and downloads.

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.

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).

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.

GlossaNet - http://glossa.fltr.ucl.ac.be/
[www] Morphological, lexical, syntactical and thematical information retrieval in Web sites of newspapers.

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.

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].

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.aquad.de/ - http://www.aquad.de/
[Win] Presentation, download demo, manual and references.

http://www.dfki.de/~kipp/anvil/ - http://www.dfki.de/~kipp/anvil/
Michael Kipp's tool to annotate video files [Free Software].

http://www.ideaworks.com/qualrus/ - http://www.ideaworks.com/qualrus/
[Win] QDA program for text, pictures, audio and video documents. Brochure, demo and screenshots.

http://www.intext.de/ - http://www.intext.de/
[Dos, run also under Win] Language and content analysis freeware by Harald Klein.

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.maxqda.com/ - http://www.maxqda.com/
[Win] Processing of user-coded text segments (previously WinMax). Presentation, download trial version, papers and conferences.

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.

http://www.orgnet.com/ - http://www.orgnet.com/
Social network analysis software by Valdis Krebs.

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.

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].

Idea Rover - http://www.idearover.com/
This software supports the organisation of source documents. Prestentation, screenshots and download.

IdeaWorks - http://www.ideaworks.com/
[Win] Solutions for social scientists. Home of Qualrus and Methodologist's Toolchest.

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.

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.

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].

NetMiner - http://www.netminer.com/
Exploratory network data analysis and visualization : web-based and downloadable demo, 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.

PCAD 2000 - http://www.gb-software.com/
[Win] Software devoted to psychiatric diagnosis.

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.

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.

Qual-Software - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/qual-software.html
E-mail discussion group about CAQDAS Project (1998-today).

Research Ware - http://www.researchware.com/
[Mac / Win] Presentation of HyperResearch, downloadable demo versions and events.

Semantic-Knowledge - http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/
[Win] Presentation of content analysis tools : Tropes, Zoom, Index. Software. Guidelines, manual, news, customers, and free download.

Social Science Automation - http://www.socialscienceautomation.com/
[Win] Michael Young and Margaret Hermann propose their Profiler tools. Articles on leaders profiling.

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.

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.

Text analysis computing tools - http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/tact/
[Dos] TACT is a text-analysis and retrieval system.

TextGrab - http://www.textgrab.com/
[Win HP-UX] Websites downloader segmenting the text automatically (prepares the text for seamless processing with TextQuest).

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).

The Ethnograph - http://www.qualisresearch.com/
[Win] Software processing qualitative data by textsegments coded by the user.

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).

Transana - http://www.transana.org/
[Win] Transcription and analysis of audio and video data. Presentation, downloads and bulletin boards.

Weft QDA - http://www.pressure.to/qda/
[Win / Linux] A free, open-source tool for qualitative analysis of text documents.

WinMax - archives - http://www.winmax.de/
Qualitative method processing user-coded text segments (now called MaxQDA).

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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