I discovered CATMA almost by chance, not long after I heard for the first time about the Digital Humanities. For a while, struggling with some complicated poetic and narratological problems in my corpus, I tried to get help from programmers and computational linguists. Those discussions were always very interesting and thought-provoking, but they never gave me exactly what I needed as a literary scholar. Then CATMA entered the picture and changed it radically: we – myself and the tool – spoke the same conceptual language. The reason for this was that CATMA proved to be more than just a tool; it was a paradigm, one that combined, in the most accessible but fundamental way, the systematic analytical power of the computer, with the free, creative and open-ended interpretative thinking of the human being.

Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky

Director of the Literary Lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev