TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) is a gateway that highlights tools and code snippets usable for

textual criticism Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and of literary criticism that is concerned with the identification of textual variants, or different versions, of either manuscripts or of printed books. Such texts may range in ...

of all types. The project is housed at the

University of Alberta The University of Alberta, also known as U of A or UAlberta, is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford,"A Gentleman of Strathcona – Alexander Cameron Rutherfor ...

, and is currently led by Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair, Kirsten C. Uszkalo, and Milena Radzikowska. Users of the portal explore tools to use in their research, and can rate, review, and comment on tools, browse curated lists of recommended tools, and add tags to tools. Tool pages on TAPoR consist of a short description, authorial information, a screenshot of the tool, tags, suggested related tools, and user ratings and comments. Code snippet pages also contain an excerpt of code and a link to the full code's location online. An earlier version of the portal was based at

McMaster University McMaster University (McMaster or Mac) is a public research university in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The main McMaster campus is on of land near the residential neighbourhoods of Ainslie Wood and Westdale, adjacent to the Royal Botanical Ga ...

, and consisted of a network of six leading Humanities computing centres in Canada: McMaster,

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary instit ...

(in collaboration with Malaspina UC),

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

Université de Montréal The Université de Montréal (UdeM; ; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-de ...

(law) and

University of New Brunswick The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is a public university with two primary campuses in Fredericton and Saint John, New Brunswick. It is the oldest English-language university in Canada, and among the oldest public universities in North Americ ...

. TAPoR developed,

a network of nodes at universities across Canada which would have servers and local labs where the best text tools, be they from industry or other sources, could be aggregated and made available. These would be supplemented by representative texts and special infrastructure ...

This earlier version allowed researchers to experiment with text analysis tools by either using them without an account through the "TAPoR Tools" interface, or getting an account where they could define texts they wanted to operate on and create a list of favorite tools. TAPoR has also sponsored CaSTA (Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) conferences includin
The Face of Text
(CaSTA 2004) which focused on text visualization. Selected papers from "The Face of Text" were published b
Text Technology
''Text Technology.'' Volume 14, Number 2, 2005 a journal of computer text processing.

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External links

TAPoR 3.0TAPoR 1.0 on the Wayback Machine
McMaster University Computational linguistics {{Website-stub