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Resources

On this page you can find a collection of free resources made available by the Brussels Digital Text Lab. Our resources range from presentations, interactive tutorials and tool recommendations to interactive applications. Some of these are developed by us and only accessible by VUB staff, while others are pointers to external software or even tutorials to be followed by anyone interested.

Are you looking for a certain resource that you feel might be beneficial for many researchers at the VUB? Do you want to share information about a technique or technology that you use? Feel free to reach out to us and we will see if it can be included.

B-TXT Applications

The applications listed below are developed by us and available for all VUB staff members through Interactive Apps on the VUB-HPC portal. To use them, VUB staff and PhD researchers first need a VSC account. You only need to create this account once; after that, you can return to the portal whenever you want to use the tools.

Not sure how to get access? Start with our tutorial on getting access to the B-TXT toolsuite.

Basic Text Comparison

Text Comparison

Compare two text files and highlight passages that appear in both documents.

Data Editor

Data Exploration

Upload a CSV file, edit it in a table, and download the corrected data.

Data Explorer

Data Exploration

Explore columns, values, and patterns in a CSV dataset.

Data Frame Explorer

Data Exploration

Browse a CSV file as an interactive table with paging and download support.

FasterWhisper Audio Transcription

Upload an audio file, transcribe it with Whisper, correct timed segments, and download the transcript.

Interactive Classification Training

Text Classification

Label examples, refine predictions, and train a custom text classification model.

Live Audio Transcription

Record speech in the browser and turn it into a quick live transcript.

NER PDF Viewer

Named Entity Recognition

Upload a PDF and inspect named entities highlighted page by page.

Network Visualisation

Named Entity Recognition

Network Analysis

Extract named entities from a CSV text column and visualise co-occurrences as a network.

Question Answering

Question Answering

Upload documents and ask a local language model questions about their contents.

Topic Modelling

Topic Modelling

Run BERTopic on a CSV text column and explore the resulting topic visualisations.

Tutorials

Vibecoding a local, layout-aware PDF reader

Academic Reading

Blog post Technical tutorial

Stylometric Analysis of Pommelien Thijs’ Lyrics

Digital Text Analysis

A step-by-step tutorial on comparing Dutch song lyrics with stylometry.

Getting Access to the B-TXT Toolsuite

The B-TXT toolsuite runs on the VUB supercomputers and is available through the VUB-HPC portal. Before you can use the tools, you need a VSC account.

Tool Recommendations

FAIR & Open Research

The FAIR data principles are international guidelines for research data management that aim to optimise the reuse of research data. This is achieved by making research data…

Automatic Text Analysis

automatic analysis

Data Collection

Data Vizualisation

https://gephi.org

Learning Resources

Learning Resources

Online Exhibitions & Digital Storytelling

As scientists we often want to share our research results and insights to the wider community. This can be done by creating static visualisations such as graphs or…

OCR & HTR

TODO: talk about eScriptorium and transkribus

Qualitative Analysis

When performing qualitative research, good software can be essential. This can be the case when you are working with interview transcripts, focus group notes, survey…

Presentations

Standardisation and Orthographic Variation in Late Modern Dutch Witness Depositions

Spelling Variation

Sara Budts, Yoshi Malaise, Rik Vosters

News archive

B-TXT Will Present at CLIN36

We are happy to share that our paper “Dutch without loan words? A large-scale study of Dutch puristic word lists (1550-1850)”, written together with PhD researcher Nelle…

B-TXT Presents at DHBenelux

This week B-TXT presented their joint research with professor Rik Vosters at DHBenelux in Maastricht! Sara presented our work on the bottom-up retrieval of ortographic…

Get to know us!

Frank De Graeve interviewed us about our work on language applications for research in the humanities and social sciences.

B-TXT Presents Research at the AWLL International Workshop

On the 29th of October the Brussels Digital Text Core facility presented a conference talk at the 15th AWLL international workshop on writing systems and literacy in Pisa.

B-TXT Introduces Open Office Thursdays!

Are you a PhD Student or Researcher at the VUB? Are you struggling with a bug in your Python or R code? Do you need some help collecting, transcribing, digitizing…