Stat Tech Reportv1

The STAT technical report provides an introduction to the Stat project, which aims to develop an open source machine learning framework in Java called Stat for text analysis. Stat focuses on facilitating common textual data analysis tasks for researchers and engineers. The report outlines the background, motivation, scope, and stakeholders of the project. It also describes an initial survey conducted to understand potential users and their needs in order to prioritize the framework's design and implementation. Finally, the report analyzes two existing toolkits, Weka and MinorThird, and discusses their strengths and limitations for text analysis tasks.