MINE - Workspace as a Service for Text Analysis

This paper introduces the MINE platform, which aims to help scientists overcome the difficulties in data acquisition and text analysis in a large scale. Foremost, MINE provides a search portal, which facilitates the data acquisition process by allowing users to search and download data across multiple repositories. After investigating other state-of-the-art systems on the market at the moment, we realize that they cannot satisfy the complexity of a text analysis workflow. Therefore, a text analysis workspace was created in MINE. This workspace gives users not only a chance to build their own analysis workflows, but also to execute them on a powerful and reliable infrastructure. Although this workspace is a promising feature, there are still some works to be done. However, we strongly believe that it will be released for public use in this year.