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This poll asked KDnuggets readers: What Text Analysis / Text Mining Software you used in 2004?

Tools that deal with commercial software can attract too much attention from overzealous companies, and this also happened this time, with some companies who inflated the number of votes for their software. I have removed these votes, and only included votes from the first week of the poll -- historically when most of the votes are cast.

Although the poll cannot be considered scientific, I hope that it will be useful in getting a snapshot of text mining software. With those caveats, the most popular tool among responders was SPSS Lexiquest, followed by SAS Text Miner.

The rest of the tools were in the second tier, including (in alphabetical order) Clearforest, Copernic Summarizer, dtSearch, Insightful Infact, Inxight, TEMIS, and Wordstat.

Other tools mentioned included

• Vivisimo/Clusty clustering search engine
• Search Technologies' VantagePoint for text analysis
• YALE + WordVectorTool-Plugin, for text classification and clustering
• DIAsDEM workbench, for KDD-based semantic annotation
• BioRAT, a biology-specific text mining tool