To learn more about the capabilities of RAT and to gain inspiration for own research, we invited researchers from all over the world to join us for the third annual RAT Community Meeting in Hamburg on Friday, September 26, 2025. You can rewatch the introductory talks now.
What is RAT and How Can You Use It? – Dirk Lewandowski
This talk introduce the RAT software and its various components. You will learn about the types of studies that can be conducted using RAT. Additionally, we explain RAT’s modules for designing studies, collecting data, juror assessment, and performing automatic data analysis.
What’s New in RAT? – Sebastian Sünkler and Kardelen Bilir
In this presentation, we discuss the new features we have developed since the last community meeting. This includes:
- The Query Sampler, the tool for exploring search queries, is integrated into RAT now.
- With our new scrapers for Large Language Models, it is possible to gather, evaluate and analyze responses from systems like Google’s AI Overviews.
What’s Coming Up? – Sebastian Sünkler, Kardelen Bilir and Sebastian Schultheiß
Learn more about our plans to make RAT more powerful, flexible, and sustainable:
- By integrating RAT into a larger research software infrastructure, you can connect it seamlessly to other tools for surveys, data analysis, and more.
- We are exploring a future option to install RAT locally on your own computer or institutional server. You gain full control over the tool and ensure that all sensitive research data remains securely within your institution.
- We provide you with an update about the formation of the new RAT association.
Showreel – Sebastian Schultheiß and Oliver Koop
Have a brief look on the various studies conducted with the assistance of RAT and on the specific features of RAT that were utilized for this purpose, such as result overlap, classification or retrieval effectiveness studies in fields like political, health or information science.
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