Seminar paper from the yr 2011 within the topic desktop technology - software program, grade: Defended, Griffith college (Griffith collage and Qantm College), language: English, summary: the worldwide phenomenon of electronic(e)-governance and the complex skill for info iteration through details and conversation applied sciences (ICTs) have contributed to the perceived challenge of knowledge overload. In participatory democracy and particularly e-democracy and e-consultation, within which an enormous volume and array of textual discourse might be generated, powerful and effective info processing is necessary. potent and effective processing will support contributors to make-sense of and stay engaged in consultations. for this reason, instruments and applied sciences to aid within the research, synthesis and dissemination of such discourse have the aptitude to make a salient contribution. listed here, a critique of a number of software program programs, along with qualitative textual content research, typical language textual content mining and computing device supported argument visualisation software program is gifted. using normal language textual content mining software program with sentiment research positive aspects was once the preliminary concentration of this research. besides the fact that, early within the research and after a software program trial, ordinary language textual content mining software program used to be thought of underdeveloped in regards to the categorical performance sought. for this reason, the research then targeted totally on the software of desktop supported argument visualisation (CSAV) and in addition textual content research software program. For textual content research, Leximancer, textual content Analyst Atlas.ti. and TextSTAT have been hottest and selected from between 11 programmes investigated. For CSAV software program, a programme referred to as Compendium was once most well liked and selected from between twelve programmes investigated.