Analyzing unstructured textual data is essential across disciplines, but often requires programming skills that many researchers lack. TALL (Text Analysis for All) is an interactive R-Shiny application that unifies data import, cleaning, pre-processing, statistical analysis, and visualization into a single tool. It supports tokenization, lemmatization and Part-of-Speech (PoS) tagging for analyses in multiple languages. It includes topic modeling, correspondence and cluster analysis, co-occurrence networks, polarity detection, word embedding and text summarization. Designed for accessibility and reproducibility, TALL enables non-programmers to perform advanced text analysis efficiently and effectively. This article outlines the architecture and functionalities, demonstrating its use through illustrative examples.
TALL: Text analysis for all–an interactive R-shiny application for exploring, modeling, and visualizing textual data / Aria, Massimo; Spano, Maria; D'Aniello, Luca; Cuccurullo, Corrado; Misuraca, Michelangelo. - In: SOFTWAREX. - ISSN 2352-7110. - 34:(2026). [10.1016/j.softx.2026.102590]
TALL: Text analysis for all–an interactive R-shiny application for exploring, modeling, and visualizing textual data
Aria, Massimo
;Spano, Maria;D'Aniello, Luca;
2026
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Analyzing unstructured textual data is essential across disciplines, but often requires programming skills that many researchers lack. TALL (Text Analysis for All) is an interactive R-Shiny application that unifies data import, cleaning, pre-processing, statistical analysis, and visualization into a single tool. It supports tokenization, lemmatization and Part-of-Speech (PoS) tagging for analyses in multiple languages. It includes topic modeling, correspondence and cluster analysis, co-occurrence networks, polarity detection, word embedding and text summarization. Designed for accessibility and reproducibility, TALL enables non-programmers to perform advanced text analysis efficiently and effectively. This article outlines the architecture and functionalities, demonstrating its use through illustrative examples.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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