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Tools
Below are sources that were specifically designed to work with Japanese-language materials and/or Asian languages more broadly. For a larger list of general digital humanities tools, see the final section at the bottom of this page.
Japan-specific
Google Extension of quicklinks some commonly used DH Tools in Japan Studies
James Harry Morris, The Digital Orientalist
Concordance
Dictionaries (for use with word segmenters)
Mapping/Geocoding
OCR & Kuzushiji Reading
Temporal and Unit Conversion/Analysis
Text Analysis
- CTP Text Tools (works with pre-tokenized Japanese)
Word Segmentation, Part of Speech Tagging
- mecab-ipadic-NEologd (neologism dictionary for MeCab)
- neologdn (normalizer for mecab-neologd)
- TinySegmenter (Javascript)
- Rakuten (Javascript)
- Rakuten MA Python (Python module)
- Japanese segmenter Jupyter notebook (for non-technical folks)
General Digital Tools
The following Airtable features an ongoing list of tools for digital and humanistic research. The Airtable is divided into several (sometimes overlapping) subsections: Visualization, Mapping, Timelines, Annotation, OCR, Data/Databases, Data Cleaning/Prep, and Tutorials.
To submit new resources to the DH Tools database, please do so through this form.