PCAT
 Public Comment Analysis Toolkit
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File Types PCAT can Import

Federal Docket Management System Archives
Excel or CSV Spreadsheets
IdeaScale and iNgage Archives
RSS Feeds, Archived or Live
Email, Blog, Wiki, and Other Web 2.0 Documents
CAT-style Datasets
Plain text, HTML, or XML Documents
Microsoft Word and Adobe PDFs
With PCAT you can

Search for key concepts & code raw text
Annotate coding with shared memos
Remove duplicates and cluster similar comments
Auto-highlight unique and offensive language
Form peer and project networks
Establish multi-level credentials and permissions
Assign multiple coders to specific tasks
Easily measure inter-coder reliability
Adjudicate valid & invalid decisions
Generate reports in RTF, CSV or XML format
Archive or share completed projects online

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Content on this website was made possible with the following grants from the National Science Foundation: IIS-0917773, IIS-0705091 and IIS-0704210 "Collaborative Research III-COR: From a Pile of Documents to a Collection of Information: A Framework for Multi-Dimensional Text Analysis" as well as IIS-0429293 "Collaborative Research: Language Processing Technology for Electronic Rulemaking." We are also grateful for financial support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the National Science Foundation.