Software

b-eye-network, by Seth Grimes, January 27, 2009

Open source is a great choice for many text analytics users, especially folks who have programming skills, who need custom capabilities or who are trying to get a feel for possibilities before committing themselves. Excellent options are available for all these users. Tools such as Gate, NLTK, R and RapidMiner share the low cost, power, flexibility and community that have driven adoption of open-source software by individual users and enterprises alike. RapidMiner even combines text processing with business intelligence (BI) and visualization functions.

This article will look at open source text analytics, focusing on those four tools. (UIMA, the open source Unstructured Information Management Architecture, is a rich topic in itself, one that merits its own article.) I will suggest a number of resources that will help you get started. Keep in mind that since these tools are open source, you can simply download them and try them out!

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