Dan Kline wrote:
Many thanks for the suggestions so far—
Could I also suggest Xaira, http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/rts/xaira/
And forgive the slight digression here. I think I might have had something like Mandala diagrams in mind. I actually remember seeing on some History or Discovery Channel type show a software package used to track phone numbers, etc. for linking criminal syndicates together. The phone numbers were listed around the circumference of a circle and then each number was linked to every other with a line across the circle, and the color of the line indicated the strength of the connection (in number of calls placed or received). It looked like a nifty way to see a variety of relationships within a coherent body of material. I wonder if anything like that is available for analyzing language.
As others have suggested (but maybe not given the URL): http://mandala.humviz.org/
Does anyone have any experience with the software used in the Canterbury Tales Project?
As Peter Robinson is on the list, I would have to guess that answer is yes.
-James --- Dr James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford