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Digital Humanties: Text Analysis
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What is text analysis?
Text analysis is the study of a text. Students may want to look for patterns, relationships, or themes in a certain work. Text analysis tools can help students more easily recognize and categorize the data they are looking for.
Text Analysis Tools
- Voyant Toolsa website that allows for the reading and analysis of texts; available online.
- Ant Conca free corpus analysis software with different tools; available through download.
- MALLETMachine Learning for Language Toolkit, Java-based package for a variety of machine learning tasks regarding texts; available through download.
- Hathi Trust Bookwormsearch through volumes from http://hathitrust; Hathi Trust is a not-for-profit organization focused on the preservation of digital texts, available online.
- Ugaritallows users to align texts in different languages at the most basic level; available online.