Tools

This is an incomplete list of tools you can use to build corpora from the web.

• BootCaT – bootstrap specialized corpora and terms from the web

• Shared ngram collector – Perl script useful for near-duplicate detection
• Onion – a tool for removing duplicate parts from large collections of texts.

• jusText – a tool for removing boilerplate content
• Web Content Extractor by Nikola Ljubešić – a tool for extracting content from web pages
• the PotaModule (a Perl module that is intended to perform “boilerplate” stripping and other forms of HTML document filtering and extraction) is available in the BootCaT toolkit (see link above).