Recommended *free* tools and resources for off-line use

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Updated: 2006-02-06

Concordancers

• AntConc Concordancer

• Windows Concordancer (WinConcord)

• ConcApp Concordancer

• PhraseContext (free 35-day test version)

• MultiLingual Concordancer (Java)

Collocation and n-gram tools

• CollocationExtract

• kfNgram

• FrameCount (requires Microsoft .NET Framework + a password – e-mail me if needed)

• Ngram Statistics Package (NSP) (Unix)

Texts and corpora

• Libraries for WordPilot 2002 (texts for learner concordancing, various genres and domains)

• Project Gutenberg (free e-books)

• Oxford Text Archive (free text resources for research; free registration required)

• <NEW !> Columbia Newsblaster (news stories categorized by topic)

• European Parliament Proceedings Parallel Corpus 1996-2003

• Bilingual Polish-English Quarterly Zbiór Dokumentów

Concordancing-assisted writing tools

• <NEW !> WordPilot (free 30-day trial)

• <NEW !> MarkMyWords (for teachers; beta test version; not always available)

• <NEW !> CheckMyWords (for students; beta test version; not always available)

Other corpus- and text-based CALL

• XCLOZE & CONTEXTS (Tim Johns' corpus-based / concordancing CALL programs)

• TestBuilder (IFA in-house tool for building corpus-based exercises & tests)

• TTS-supported VLC ClozeMaker (includes Storyboard function)

• Fun with texts (demo)

• WordClassifier

• Paul Nation's Range (aka VocabProfile(r))

• TextLadder

Text analysis tools:

• WordClassifier

• CopyFind (plagiarism detector)

Corpus acquisition tools:

• wget for Windows

• Text Downloader

• SiteSnagger

• KWiCFinder (also allows precision web concordancing; see online web concordancing tools)

File manipulation and conversion utilities (also simple programming):

• HTML to text tool

• pdf to text tools:
  > PhraseContext convert tool
  > PDF995

• gsar – Global Search and Replace tool (very fast, no regular expressions)

• InfoRapid Search and Replace (changes in multiple files, regular expressions supported)

• Linux/Unix tools for Windows:
  > GNU Utilities for Windows
  > DJGPP
  > CygWin

• Active Perl (Perl for Windows)

Corpus Annotation:

• QTAG POS tagger (Java)

• Brill's tagger for Windows

• Araucaria (tool for marking argument structure)

TTS:

• ReadPlease

• Aldo's Text-to-WAVE (shareware)

• FreeTTS (A speech synthesizer written entirely in the Java^TM programming language)

• VLC TTS support programs (talking browser and cloze maker)

ASR:

• Sphinx-4 (Java)

CMC:

• Skype – free online telephony

More?:

• stanford.edu list

• David Lee's Bookmarks for Corpus-based Linguists

Last update: 2006-02-06
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