Hi, Eric, I don't have any experience in this field, but I went looking a while ago when the topic came up, and these two links are in my notes for further exploration, if the topic ever comes around again: http://wordseer.berkeley.edu/ http://mininghumanities.com/ May they serve you well. -- HARDY POTTINGER <[log in to unmask]> University of Missouri Library Systems http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/ https://MOspace.umsystem.edu/ "A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly." --Pablo Neruda On 8/27/13 10:24 AM, "Eric Lease Morgan" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >What sorts of text mining software do y'all support / use in your >libraries? > >We here in the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame have >all but opened a place called the Center For Digital Scholarship. We are >/ will be providing a number of different services to a number of >different audiences. These services include but are not necessarily >limited exactly to: > > * data management consultation > * data analysis and visualization > * geographic information systems support > * text mining investigations > * referrals to other "centers" across campus > >I am expected to support the text mining investigations. I have >traditionally used open source tools do to my work. Many of these tools >require some sort of programming in order to exploit. To some degree I am >expected mount text mining software on our local Windows and Macintosh >computers here in our Center. I am familiar with the lists of tools >available at Bamboo as well as Hermeneuti.ca. [0, 1] TAPoRware is good >too, but a bit long in the tooth. [2] > >Do you know of other sets of tools to choose from? Are you familiar with >SASŪ Text Analytics, STATISTICA Data Miner, or RapidMiner? [3, 4, 5] > >[0] Bamboo Dirt - http://dirt.projectbamboo.org >[1] Hermeneuti.ca - http://hermeneuti.ca/voyeur/tools >[2] TAPoRware - http://taporware.ualberta.ca >[3] Text Analytics - http://www.sas.com/text-analytics/ >[4] Data Miner - http://www.statsoft.com/Products/STATISTICA/Data-Miner/ >[5] RapidMiner - http://rapid-i.com/content/view/181/190/ > >-- >Eric Lease Morgan, Digital Initiatives Librarian >Hesburgh Libraries >University of Notre Dame > >574/631-8604