Online tools for researchers

Link: http://connectedresearchers.com/online-tools-for-researchers/

Assistant Tools for Scientific Paper Writing

1) PaperRater (online)
Link: http://www.paperrater.com/free_paper_grader

Intro: PaperRater.com is a free resource that utilizes Artificial Intelligence to help students write better. Our technology combines Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Computational Linguistics, and Data Mining to produce the most powerful automated proofreading tool available on the Internet today. PaperRater.com is used by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students improve their writing and check for plagiarism.

2) SWAN (offline)
Link: https://cs.joensuu.fi/swan/index.html

Intro: This Swan - Scientific Writing AssistaNt - aims at helping writers with the content, not the grammar or spelling. It guides you towards known good scientific writing practices and helps your readers find your contribution. The tool was designed to help you with your writing, not to merely point out errors. Using the tool should be simple; just enter your text sections into the tool, optionally make some manual elaboration and click the "Evaluate" button. Once you have used the tool with one of your own scientific papers, do let us know how it has helped to you.

3) TBA

Freebase

Link: https://www.freebase.com/
API:
1) https://developers.google.com/freebase/data
2) http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/Open_source

Wikipedia Extractor

Link: http://medialab.di.unipi.it/wiki/Wikipedia_Extractor

Intro: WikiExtractor.py is a Python script that extracts and cleans text from a Wikipedia database dump. The output is stored in a number of files of similar size in a given directory. Each file contains several documents in the document format.

Charset Detector Tool in Java

Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jchardet/
Intro: chardet is a java port of the source from mozilla's automatic charset detection algorithm.

TempoWordNet

Link: https://tempowordnet.greyc.fr/ 

Intro: TempoWordNet is a free lexical knowledge base for temporal analysis where each synset of WordNet is assigned to its intrinsic temporal values. Each synset of WordNet is automatically time-tagged with four dimensions : atemporal, past, present and future.

Cross-platform Programming

Some cross-platform programming IDE & tools:

1) Code::Blocks (an alternative to Microsoft VC++ IDE in Linux or even Windows): http://www.codeblocks.org/
2) wxWidgets (cross-platform GUI programming library): http://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/
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