Text Analysis Developers' Alliance (TADA) and T-REX

The Text Analysis Developers’ Alliance (TADA) is an informal
affi liation of designers, developers, and users of text analysis
tools in the digital humanities. The TADA wiki (http://tada.
mcmaster.ca/) has steadily grown since the group’s fi rst
meeting three years ago, and now contains a wide range of
useful documents, including general information about text
analysis, pedagogically-oriented text analysis recipes, and
content from several projects engaged in open research
(publicly documenting themselves). Most recently TADA has
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announced its inaugural T-REX event (http://tada.mcmaster.ca/
trex/), a community initiative with the following objectives:
• to identify topics of shared interest for further
development in text analysis
• to evaluate as a community ideas and tools that emerge
from the topics
• to present results from this process as research in various
venues
This panel will provide a more detailed account of the history
and activities of TADA, as well as a preliminary account of TREX from the participants themselves, where possible.