Textable

Textable was initally developed as part of a pedagogical innovation project at the University of Lausanne but it has gained access to a new widget named Theatre Classique by simply installing Textable-Prototypes using Orange’s software.This new widget offers a straightforward way of importing theater plays from the Théâtre Classique website. Orange Textable is an open-source add-on bringing advanced text-analytical functionalities to the Orange Canvas data mining software package.

It essentially enables users to build data tables on the basis of text data, by means of a flexible and intuitive interface. Textable can import text from keyboard, files, or URLs,process any kind of raw text format: TXT, HTML, XML, CSV, etc,supports many text encodings, incl. Unicode and also export results in text files or copy–paste.It uses regular expressions to segment letters, words, sentences, etc. or full-text query and also easily generate random text samples.With Textable,users can sketch and run their analytic workflow using simple graphical tools.

Orange Textable offers the following features: text data import from keyboard, files, or urls, support for various encodings, including Unicode,, standard preprocessing and custom recoding (based on regular expressions), segmentation and annotation of various text units (letters, words, etc.), ability to extract and exploit XML-encoded annotations, automatic, random, or arbitrary selection of unit subsets, unit context examination using concordance and collocation tables, calculation of frequency and complexity measures and recoded text data and table export.