stéfan sinclair :: scribblings & musings

TADA (the Text Analysis Developers’ Alliance, of which I’m the unofficial future former director) has announced winners of the 2008 T-REX Competition (for text analysis tools development and usage). The panel of judges reviewed the many submissions received and has recognized winners in five categories:

• Best New Tool
  • Degrees of Connection by Susan Brown, Jeffery Antoniuk, Sharon Balazs, Patricia Clements, Isobel Grundy, Stan Ruecker
  • Ripper Browser by Alejandro Giacometti, Stan Ruecker, Ian Craig, Gerry Derksen
• Best Idea for a New Tool
  • Magic Circle by Carlos Fiorentino, Stan Ruecker, Milena Radzikowska, Piotr Michura
• Best Idea for Improving a Current Tool
  • Collocate Cloud by Dave Beavan
  • Throwing Bones by Kirsten C. Uszkalo
• Best Idea for Improving the Interface of the TAPoR Portal
  • Bookmarklet for Immediate Text Analysis by Peter Organisciak
• Best Experiment of Text Analysis Using High Performance Computing
  • Back-of-the-Book Index Generation by Patrick Juola

Congratulations to all winners and thanks to all participants! Watch this space for upcoming TADA events, including the next TREX Competition.