PL074 - Australian Text Analytics Platform

Research Investment

Researchers: Professor Michael Haugh (Principal investigator)

Brief description "Text analytics is increasingly important across disciplines, for example extracting and classifying important social and cultural information from texts in the Humanities and social sciences, or extracting machine-readable information from technical texts in engineering and the sciences.

Text analytics in Australian research happen at either a basic, generic level (handled with standard packages) or at a very specialised level with hand-crafted code. The aim of the Australian Text Analytics Platform (ATAP) is to fill the space between these two possibilities, with more powerful tools than contained in the standard packages, but more accessible to a large number of researchers who do not have strong coding skills.

ATAP will transform and accelerate the kinds of text-based research possible across disciplines by providing Australian researchers with access to an integrated notebook-based platform for processing and mining text data, with self-service training in text analytics. It will confer greater flexibility and transparency in research workflows by building a community that brings together developers and users of text analytics in an open-source, collaborative environment."

Amount 783,000.00 AUD

Scheme Platforms Program