Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR)

The TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) project is based at McMaster University, and consists of a network of six of the leading Humanities computing centres in Canada: McMaster, University of Victoria (in collaboration with Malaspina UC), University of Alberta, University of Toronto, Université de Montreal (law) and University of New Brunswick. TAPoR developed,

a network of nodes at universities across Canada which would have servers and local labs where the best text tools, be they from industry or other sources, could be aggregated and made available. These would be supplemented by representative texts and special infrastructure ... [Page 286 of Rockwell, Geoffrey. "TAPoR: Building a Portal for Text Analysis." in "Mind Technologies" eds. Raymond Siemens and David Moorman. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2006. pages 285-289.]

TAPoR has developed a web portal where researchers can experiment with text analysis tools. Researchers can either use the tools without an account through the [http://portal.tapor.ca/portal/coplets/myprojects/taporTools/ TAPoR Tools] interface or they can get an account where they can define texts they want to operate on and create a list of favorite tools.

The tools on TAPoR are web services that are not on the TAPoR server. The portal acts as a broker for tools as web services hiding them from the user and providing a common interface. The tools allow for advanced Text Analysis.

TAPoR has also sponsored CaSTA (Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) conferences including the [http://tapor1.mcmaster.ca/~faceoftext/ The Face of Text] (CaSTA 2004) which focused on text visualization. Selected papers from the "The Face of Text" were published by [http://texttechnology.mcmaster.ca/ Text Technology] ["Text Technology." Volume 14, Number 2, 2005] , a journal of computer text processing.

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External links

* [http://portal.tapor.ca TAPoR portal]
* [http://www.tapor.ca site about the TAPoR project]