One of the most relevant resources in the study and development of information retrieval technologies is the TAPoR 3 portal (Text Analysis Portal for Research). Developed since 2015 by the University of Alberta and McMaster in Canada, its objective is to consolidate in a single directory all software for text analysis, text comparison, search, statistical analysis of data and text, natural language processing, pattern-based retrieval, neural and network analysis, and bibliographic pattern detection…
To get an idea of the number of available programs, it is sufficient to access one of its categories, «Social Media Analysis», to find 24 specialized tools, such as «Netvizz», dedicated to extracting datasets from Facebook, «YouTube Comment Scraper», a tool for extracting comments from YouTube, «Complex Sentiment Analysis», designed for analyzing sentiment or contextual nuances in text posted on social media, «twXplorer», specialized in analyzing terms and keywords on the social network «Twitter», and «Trend Miner», oriented toward discovering trends on social networks using data mining and machine learning techniques.
The list of specialized software does not seem to end with TAPoR 3. Unfortunately, not all software linked on its pages is open source, and certainly, it does not always offer simple installation methods that facilitate multi-platform operation. However, the variety of possible tools and applications makes it a fundamental resource for specialists in Information Retrieval.