pixellany said most of it.
You should umount (or mount read-only) that partition as soon as possible. Photorec can search for patterns and restore a number of file formats, however, if they were just plain text files without any special formatting (i.e., not openoffice docs) then a simple grep on the device node will work as well, or maybe better. You can just grep for pieces of the text, the more you remember the easier it will be. Manual work will be required.
I know no automated way to recover files. I've heard of ext3 undelete tools in the past, but never tried one.
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