TXM

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Synopsis

TXM is free, open-source Unicode, XML & TEI compatible text/corpus analysis environment and graphical client based on CQP and R. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and as a J2EE web portal.

Features

  • Provides qualitative analysis tools:
    • concordances of lexical patterns based on the efficient CQP full text search engine and its CQL query language
    • CQL pattern frequency lists for any word property (type, lemma, pos...)
    • CQL pattern occurrence graphics
    • lexical patterns are expressed in the CQL query language, based on word & structure level properties: (for example)
      • "aiming" to simply search for the word 'aiming'
      • ".*ing" to search for words ending in "ing" (including mainly verb forms)
      • [pos="VERB" & word=".*ing"] to search for verb forms ending in ".ing" (where Part of Speech annotation is present)
      • [lemma="group"] []{0,3} [pos="VERB" & word=".*ing"] to search for the collocation <group lemma> followed by a <verb with progressive aspect> with at most 3 words in between
    • rich HTML-based text edition navigation with links from all other tools
  • Provides quantitative analysis tools, based on R packages:
    • factorial correspondance analysis
    • constrative word specificities
    • hierarchical classification
    • analysis of cooccurring words or lexical patterns
  • May be used with any collection of Unicode encoded documents in various formats: TXT, XML, XML-TEI P5 (BFM, BVH, etc. projects customization), XML-Transcriber, XML-TMX (aligned corpora - alpha), XML-PPS (Factiva - alpha), etc.
  • Applies various NLP tools on the fly on texts before analysis (e.g. TreeTagger for lemmatization and pos tagging)
  • Indexes words and their properties as well as hierarchical structure of texts
  • Indexes external or internal metadata of texts or speakers
  • Allows construction of various subcorpora and partitions (for constrative analysis between text structures or groups of words)
  • Exports any result in CSV, XML or SVG format
  • Scripting possible for automation of repetitive tasks or platform extension (in Groovy/Java)
  • Includes a text editor to edit data sources, results and scripts
  • Runs as standalone Windows, Mac OS X or Linux application
  • Runs also as web portal to access and analyze corpora online through a web browser (with access control management)
  • Open source: based on the best open source components for text analysis: CQP, R and Java & XSLT libraries
  • Modular architecture (Eclipse RCP OSGi and J2EE conformant): one toolbox connecting all core components is used by all the applications
  • Efficient Eclipse or Netbeans powered development framework

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System requirements

The standalone version runs on:

  • Windows - 32bit or 64bit (tested on XP, Vista and 7)
  • Mac OS X (tested on 10.5 and 10.6)
  • Linux - 32bit or 64bit (tested on Ubuntu and Debian)

The portal server runs on any J2EE capable platform (tested in Tomcat and Glassfish).

Source code and licensing

Open Source under GPL V3 licence.

Support for TEI

Supports TEI and TEI Lite "out of the box" at the XML level: words will be tokenized inside any #PCDATA and all the XML structure will be imported directly as textual structure.

Supports various flavours of TEI P5 encoding semantics at the TEI level:

  • words - #PCDATA, <w>, <num>...
  • edition - <sic>, <corr>...
  • structures - <div>, <p>...
  • notes, etc.

See "BFM encoding manual" for an example, in French, http://bfm.ens-lyon.fr/article.php3?id_article=158 of encoding practice interpreted by TXM).

The "TEI P5 BFM" TXM import module consists of Groovy and XSL scripts: they can be adapted directly by the user to any specific TEI encoding usage.

TXM Import Modules also provide various import parameters to tune each import process to specific data sources.

Sources from the following projects are currently imported into TXM:

TEI sources are preprocessed by several XSL stylesheets, one can find in TXM source code. Some of those stylesheets are available in the online TXM XSL stylesheets library: http://sourceforge.net/projects/txm/files/library/xsl

Language(s)

User Interface Language(s)

The user interface is currently available in:

  • standalone version:
    • English (EN)
    • French (FR)
    • Russian (RU)
  • portal version:
    • English (EN)
    • French (FR)

Documentation Language(s)

The documentation is currently available in:

  • standalone version:
    • English (EN)
    • French (FR)
  • portal version:
    • French (FR) (tutorial - alpha state)

Text/Corpus Language(s)

TXM works natively with any Unicode-conformant corpus.
Language support is specific to each NLP tool used (for example, TreeTagger can tag the following languages: BG, DE, EN, ES, ET, FR, FRO, GL, IT, LA, PT, RU, SW, ZH).

Programming Language(s)

TXM is written in the following programming languages:

Documentation

Tech support

Tech support is mainly provided through two mailing lists (see below).

Users can also use 3 different trackers:

User community

Currently, the TXM user community communicates using two mailing lists and a wiki:

Training in the use of TXM is available every year at the CNRS summer school « Computing and Statistical Methods in Text Analysis » (MISAT), see http://laseldi.univ-fcomte.fr/ecole.

The JADT conference (http://jadt.org) is the main meeting place for the TXM user community.

Sample implementations

The standalone version of TXM is delivered with several sample corpora included, which can be directly analyzed from within TXM after installation.

The portal version of TXM has a demo running online at http://portal.textometrie.org/demo/?locale=en (work in progress).

A previous experiment of a web application based on TXM applied to one TEI encoded text can be found at http://txm.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr/txm.

Current version number and date of release

  • standalone: Current version is 0.7 released December 2012
  • portal: Current version is 0.4 released November 2011

History of versions

See the Roadmap section on the developer's wiki at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/txm.

How to download or buy

TXM is free to download and use:

Additional notes

For publications related to TXM, please visit the Textométrie project web site at http://textometrie.ens-lyon.fr/spip.php?article82&lang=en:

  • See for example:
    Heiden, S. (2010b). The TXM Platform: Building Open-Source Textual Analysis Software Compatible with the TEI Encoding Scheme. In K. I. Ryo Otoguro (Ed.), 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation - PACLIC24 (p. 389-398). Institute for Digital Enhancement of Cognitive Development, Waseda University, Sendai, Japan. Online.

Sponsors & Contributors:

  • Initial design and development of TXM (jan 2007- dec 2011) supported by French ANR grant #ANR-06-CORP-029
  • Currently the platform continues its development through various contracts:
    • ENS-LYON contract jun-aug 2009 (Rhône-Alpes region Cluster 13 grant): Queste del saint Graal web prototype
    • ENS-LYON contract sept 2009 - jul 2010 (ANR CORPTEF Research Project funding): portal development
    • Lyon 3 University contract jan-mar 2011: XML-Transcriber import, R GUI
    • CNRS contract 2011 (DGLFLF grant): GGHF corpus processing
    • Paris 1 University contract jan 2012 - dec 2014 (Matrice Equipex): TXM development and infrastructure for historians
  • Other independent projects also improve TXM (community of developers):
    • LASLA project 2011: import of ancient latin and greek corpora
    • GREYC-PUC project may-jul 2011: PUC corpora import, improvement of portal, test on Glassfish
    • PhD thesis on micro-finance 2011-: Factiva and Calibre import
    • ANR-DFG SRCMF contract jun-jul 2012 : Tiger Search module, import & syntactic concordances
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