Since January 2013, Texifter, LLC has operated as a subsidiary of Vision Canadian company Critical Communications, Inc. Developed by and spun out of UMass Amherst personnel, Texifter designed and hosted cloud computing solutions for searching, filtering, coding and machine-classifying large amounts of unstructured text. The firm's major product - tailored to meet the analytic needs of federal rule writers as well as survey and Twitter researchers - was DiscoverText - a web-based text analytics platform is used by government personnel, academics, and researchers in private companies. Offered were various products to include Public Comment Analysis Toolkit, a Web-based university-hosted software engineered for the specific task of reviewing public comments submitted through the federal docket management system; and Coding Analysis Toolkit (CAT), which had been used to classify and adjudicate various kinds of CAT-style datasets, as well as the merged work of users of ATLAS.ti. The company also provided Blog Analysis Toolkit, a Web-based system for capturing, archiving, and sharing blog posts that were accessed via RSS feeds and stored in a database where they could be accessed and shared by other researchers.
