Tools
Online tools and datasets
Web Applications
Interactive tools for text analysis and language learning are shown below. More tools will be added over the coming months.
NewTense Identifier
Identifies the tense and voice of finite verb phrases. Tensed verbs are named according to the 12 pedagogic tenses while modalized verb phrases are classified by type of modal and the subsequent structure.
Open ToolNewPronunciation Scaffolder
Practise reading English aloud by following the visualizations to help with intonation, stress and sounds. This improved version incorporates an autoscrolling feature and multiple voices.
Open ToolNewSpelling Stars
Spell words that you hear. A mastery learning app that harnessed adaptive testing for young learners through to adults. Words are categorized by both frequency and difficulty.
Open ToolFeature visualizer
Raise your awareness of the genre of short computer science research articles. This was designed primarily for learners whose first language is not English.
Open ToolNewMove Visualizer
Explore how rhetorical move structure (Introduction, Purpose, Method, Result, Discussion) in scientific research abstracts varies within and across different subject domains. Includes 1,000 annotated abstracts across 10 disciplines.
Open ToolNewCompSci Error Detector
Check scientific writing for accuracy, brevity, clarity, objectivity and formality. Designed for computer science researchers and students writing in English as an additional language.
Open ToolNewInformation Structure Analyser
Identifies and visualizes the linguistic information structure within texts, including the principles of end-weight, information focus, information flow and thematic development.
Open ToolNewQuestion Generator
Creates open, closed and tag questions for any input declarative sentence. This is designed to help learners of English.
Open ToolNewReadability Analyser
Measures the reading level and complexity of any English text using various readability indices and text statistics.
Open ToolNewText Profiler
Maps the vocabulary of any English text onto multiple frequency-based word lists and highlights each word by band.
Open ToolNewTeacher Utilities
A suite of classroom management tools, including: a countdown timer, a student randomizer, an attention getter, a forgive-or-fine wheel, and a reward generator. All run in the browser with no login required.
Open suiteDatasets
Research datasets for academic and educational purposes.
WikiFirst
A corpus for investigating the impact of content variation on authorship similarity under a fixed genre. Consists exclusively of first revisions authored by non-anonymous Wikipedia editors.
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