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	<title>Text Analysis Developers Alliance</title>
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	<description>What Hackers Do When We're Not Coding</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2005 18:09:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Face of Text - Streaming Video Conference Archive</title>
		<link>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=26</link>
		<comments>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=26#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2005 14:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=26</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Link: The Face of Text - Streaming Video Conference Archive

This archive contains more than eight hours of recorded keynote speeches and presentations from "The Face of Text" Conference held at McMaster University during November, 2004. The streaming video is being served from IRIS (Infrastructure for Research on Internet Streaming), also located at McMaster.

This project was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geoffrey Rockwell – Open (about) Collaboration: TAPoR and Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=25</link>
		<comments>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=25#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2005 01:58:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Collaboration and Peer Review</category>
	<category>Geoffrey Rockwell</category>
		<guid>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=25</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Geoffrey provided an overview of the theoretical challenges and different types of possible collaboration in the text analysis development community.

The challenge that developers face is one of transcription. This is a two-fold problem. The first issue we face is one of representation: how do we represent evidence in the Humanities? The other concern is one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Text Analysis Challenge</title>
		<link>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=24</link>
		<comments>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=24#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 20:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mholmes</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Initiatives</category>
	<category>Competitions</category>
		<guid>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=24</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a plan for a Text Analysis Challenge, worked out in the final session at Stéfan’s house on Wednesday afternoon.

The basic idea is to provide a stimulating challenge to text analysis scholars, but at the same time to demonstrate to the broader humanities community that text analysis can be an integral part of research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Ramsay: On Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=23</link>
		<comments>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=23#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 08:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pam</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Collaboration and Peer Review</category>
	<category>Steve Ramsay</category>
		<guid>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=23</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ramsay began his presentation by saying that he feels that working together and engaging in collaboration between disciplines is a positive thing. At the moment there are several small text analysis projects, and collaboration between many different disciplines can be vastly beneficial.

Ramsay went on to discuss that traditional scholars in the humanities are not accustomed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Chartrand: Software Collaboration</title>
		<link>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=22</link>
		<comments>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=22#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 07:02:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>audrey</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Collaboration and Peer Review</category>
	<category>James Chartrand</category>
		<guid>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=22</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chartrand discussed his own experiences with software collaboration, emphasizing the role of the team leader or instigator to guide successful development projects. In the private sector, project managers are tasked with guiding collaboration, whereas in Academic circles, programming is often self-directed. Academics need managers too!

Project Manager’s established a process for development for an individual project, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bradford G. Nickerson – Towards a Text Analysis Language</title>
		<link>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=21</link>
		<comments>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=21#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2005 01:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Coding and Interoperability</category>
	<category>Brad Nickerson</category>
		<guid>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=21</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[click to enlargeBradford G. Nickerson – Towards a Text Analysis Language

Brad began with an analogy of image processing applications such as Photoshop. These applications represent a language of ‘how to do things,’ a set of many algorithms built up over years. He provided an example of an image that underwent a process of contrast stretching. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stan Rueker:  &#8220;Reading Interfaces&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=20</link>
		<comments>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=20#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2005 00:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pam</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Interface Design</category>
	<category>Stan Ruecker</category>
		<guid>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=20</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[click to enlargeIn his presentation, Rueker is attempting to read what text analysis academics will be working on next in their research.  He is recommending the creation of text analysis tools for wider use.  He says that in addition to creating tools for academics we should also create tools for the larger public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gary Shawver – Some Thoughts on Interface Design</title>
		<link>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=19</link>
		<comments>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=19#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 23:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>drew</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Interface Design</category>
	<category>Gary Shawver</category>
		<guid>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=19</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[click to enlargeGary Shawver – Some Thoughts on Interface Design

Shawver approaches interface design from the perspective of both  user and  developer.  Interfaces present users with obstacles – an ‘intuitive’ interface is not possible, natural interfaces do not exist. Some interfaces are easier to learn that others, but none are natural to us. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Hoover:  &#8220;Software Architecture in N Easy Pieces&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=18</link>
		<comments>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=18#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 23:10:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pam</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Coding and Interoperability</category>
	<category>Jim Hoover</category>
		<guid>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=18</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[click to enlargeIn his presentation, Hoover outlined the idea of software architecture, and how frameworks can help develop a text analysis tool by discovering the anomalies that arise out of commonalities in a variety of text analysis tools.  Once you build many architecture models a pattern will develop, and a standard becomes apparent out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TAPoR Demonstration</title>
		<link>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=17</link>
		<comments>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=17#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2005 22:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>audrey</dc:creator>
		
	<category>James Chartrand</category>
	<category>Geoffrey Rockwell</category>
	<category>Text Analysis Summit</category>
		<guid>http://tada.mcmaster.ca/blog/?p=17</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Geoffrey Rockwell, James Chartrand, and Stéfan Sinclair demonstrated various aspects of the TAPoR portal. Rockwell demonstrated the First Encounter interface, highlighting the centralized Try-It and Tools areas. Along with providing quick access to tools housed within the portal, the First Encounter interface also includes a News Channel to support community news and a Projects area [...]]]></description>
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