Crawling and scraping the web, like downloading all the webpages from an online search..
Removing the clutter and getting the information you need, like getting the main text of an online article from the HTML document.
Sorting the information into different types, like grouping articles by sentiment or language.
Palladian has developed to get your first version done quickly, you can even use Knime to drag and drop, instead of code and compile.
Palladian gives you access to many toolkits with well known approaches, this makes it simple to compare your approach to theirs.
Contributors, you can share your developments with others so they can do things better, or compare their approach to yours.