This document discusses requirements for designing a framework to analyze text datasets. It identifies several key variations in importing datasets related to file sources, formats and schemas. It then proposes using high-level reader classes to handle different datasets. The document outlines the STAT domain model which includes concepts like RawCorpus to represent raw document collections, Processor to process data, Corpus to represent data for machine learning, Trainer for algorithms, Model to store learned parameters, Classifier to classify documents, Prediction for output classifications, Evaluator to evaluate predictions and Evaluation for results.