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• 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)

• Anvil

  http://www.anvil-software.de/
  [Win / Mac / Linux] Michael Kipp's tool to annotate video files [Free Software].

• Aquad

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

• 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.

• audiotranskription

  http://www.audiotranskription.de/english/
  Provides tests and comparisons of digital recorders. Promotes transcription software [Win/ Linux] f4 and [Mac] f5.

• Code-A-Text

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

• ConClus

  http://www.intext.de/concluse.htm
  [Dos, run also under OS/2 Win] Multivariate statistical program and constrained cluster analysis by Hans Bardeleben.

• Concordance

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

• Dedoose

  http://www.dedoose.com/
  [www] Mixed methods suite. Presentation, user guide, case studies and publications.

• 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://nlp.lsi.upc.edu/freeling/
  [Linux] NLP set of tools including tokenizing, sentence splitting, morphological analysis and date recognition. Download, documentation and bibliography (GPL - Free Software).

• GlossaNet

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

• 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.

• InFlow

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

• 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.

• Intext

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

• 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.

• MaxQDA

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

• 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).

• Qualrus

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

• QueXC

  http://quexc.sourceforge.net/
  [www] Open source data cleaning and classification system designed for coding open-ended responses from questionnaires.

• Research Ware

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

• RLSort

  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.

• RQDA

  http://rqda.r-forge.r-project.org/
  [BSD / Win] Ronggui Huang & Zhang Gehao build a CAQDAS upon the R statistical package [Free Software].

• 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.

• Stories Matter

  http://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/
  This tool enables to annotate and analyze oral history (video and audio) archives [Free Software].

• 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.

• T-Lab

  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.

• 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.

• 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).

• The Transformer

  http://www.oliverehmer.de/transformer/
  Software tool for scientists who work with transcribed linguistic data. It addresses conversation analysts, phoneticians, anthropologists and other social scientists who want to analyze digital audio or video data and language.

• Transana

  http://www.transana.org/
  Open source transcription and analysis software for audio and video data. Includes presentation, downloads and bulletin boards. Provides a guided tour, screencasts, several articles on the usage of the program and links to external documentation sources.

• 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].

• Weft QDA

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

• 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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