About

Based in London, the Quanteda Initiative is a UK non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of open-source text analysis software. It supports active development of these tools, in addition to providing training materials, training events, and sponsoring workshops and conferences. Its main product is the open-source quanteda package for R, but the Quanteda Initiative also supports a family of independent but interrelated packages for providing additional functionality for natural language processing and document management.

Objectives

As an officially designated “community interest company”, the Quanteda Initiative is a special type of limited company which exists to benefit the community rather than private shareholders.

Its core objectives, as stated in its charter, are to:

  1. Support open-source, text analysis software developed for research and scientific analysis. These efforts focus mainly on the open-source software library quanteda, written for the R programming language, and its related family of extension packages.
  2. Promote interoperability between text analytic software libraries, including those written in other languages such as Python, Java, or C++.
  3. Provide ongoing user, technical, and development support for open-source text analysis software.
  4. Organize training and dissemination activities related to open-source text analysis software.

The Quanteda Initiative CIC was registered the United Kingdom as a Community Interest Company, company number 11135166.

Registered address:

     27 Old Gloucester Street
     London WC1N 3AX
     United Kingdom

Acknowledgements

The first five years of the quanteda project's development was funded by the European Research Council grant ERC-2011-StG 283794-QUANTESS (PI Kenneth Benoit). Additional funding for user application development is being provided by ERC-2018-PoC-QUANTEDA-812960 (PI Kenneth Benoit).

Forest

Additional funding for user-facing applications and community support has been provided by the London School of Economics and Political Science and its Department of Methodology.

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