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Text mining

Corpora, databases, tools, methods and further reading.

This list provides a selection of text mining tools. Not all tools are tested on privacy requirements. Check with the privacy officer in your Faculty!

Tools (no programming required)

AntConc
✓ Tool privacy check
Demo AntConc available
Voyant
✓ Tool privacy check
Demo Voyant available
Leximancer
Paid subscription necessary
RapidMiner
Available through Software Center
Orange
Open source

Tools (programming required)

Mallet
Java, free, open source
NLTK
Collection of Python libraries for Natural Language Processing, open source
PubTator
Free text mining tool - including AI techniques - to annotate and unify bio-entities and their relations for semantic and relation searches
spaCy
Python library for Natural Language Processing, open source
Stanford Named Entity Recognizer (NER)
Command line NER tool
TXM
Free, open source
WGET
Command line tool for bulk downloads

Literature review tools

litsearchr
Free, open source
VOSviewer
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Demo VOSviewer available