The LightSide Researcher's Workbench is an open-source text-mining tool released under the GNU General Public License. To download the latest public release, visit http://ankara.lti.cs.cmu.edu/side. See copyright/gpl.txt for more information.

This is a mirror of the LightSide bitbucket repository.

To build from source, use ant:

ant build

To build with Chinese support, use

ant build-intl

This will compile the workbench and run a modest set of unit tests. After that, you can run LightSide by executing run.sh (Linux, Mac) or LightSIDE.bat (Windows)

To add new feature-extraction, machine-learning, or analysis tools to the workbench, you'll want to write a plugin. See the appendix in the Researcher's Manual for more information, and the core LightSide plugins repository for examples. An example plugin is in plugins/examples.