GATE version 5.1 is now available for download from Sourceforge (follow the download link from http://gate.ac.uk/download).
See the release announcement for more details.
The second beta of GATE 5.1 is now available for download (follow the download link from http://gate.ac.uk/download). This release fixes a regression introduced in the beta 1 installer which caused ANNIE to fail when run on Windows.
The first beta of GATE 5.1 is now available for download (follow the download link from http://gate.ac.uk/download). The core of this release is stable but the newer features may have bugs.
GATE version 5.0 is now available for download from Sourceforge (follow the download link from http://gate.ac.uk/download).
See the release announcement for more details.
The first beta of GATE 5.0 is now available for download (follow the download link from http://gate.ac.uk/download). The core of this release is stable but the newer features may have bugs.
GATE version 4 is now available for download from Sourceforge (follow the download link from http://gate.ac.uk/download).
Version 4 includes major new facilities for annotation indexing and search, machine learning, scaleable ontology support from OWLIM (http://www.ontotext.com/owlim/ ), ontology-based document annotation, and parallel corpus alignment. There is a raft of efficiency and infrastructure improvements including revamped HTML handling, Java 5 support and numerous optimisations and bug fixes. The set of plugins available has expanded to include around 150 components, which integrate with many high-quality language processing tools from the wider research community (http://gate.ac.uk/gate/doc/plugins.html).
GATE is free and open (under the LGPL licence) and you are very welcome to use it for both commercial and research purposes. A number of businesses now use GATE in production applications, from large corporates like Thompson to startups like Garlik or Innovantage. Research, teaching and student users represent a high proportion of labs working on language and knowledge worldwide.
Plans for the future include:
See the changelog for more details.
GATE is developed on Ubuntu (and other less advanced operating systems).
This is the final release of version 3.1.
New features in 3.1 (see also next section) include:
...and a whole bunch of bug fixes!
There are a few backwards incompatibilities (see the changelog for more details).
This is the first release (beta 1) of version 3.1. This core of this release is stable, but some new features may have bugs, and there are some backwards incompatibilities (see the changelog for more details).
New features in 3.1 include:
...and a whole bunch of bug fixes!
This is the final release of version 3.0. This is a stable release and supercedes all previous versions.
New features include:
See chapter 2 (Change Log) of the User Guide for full details of what has changed.
Compatibility: for version 3 we decided that it was worthwhile making a few incompatible changes in order to clean up a couple of things that have caused trouble in previous versions. For example: some recent classes have been renamed (particularly the ontologies support classes); a few new events have been added; datastores created by version 3 will probably not read properly in version 2. If you have problems use the mailing list and we'll help you fix your code!
Version 3.1 will be a bug fix and minor adjustments to new features release; send us your comments.
GATE is free software, developed using public research funds. If you find it useful, don't keep it a secret!
Thought for the day: did you know that if Walt Disney was working now, most of his films would be illegal? Check out the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or take a look at Lessig's Free Culture.
Since beta 1 of version 3 we have stabilised the system, and made all pre-release final changes. This RC1 release is for testing of the installation routines and backwards compatibility analysis. Please report all bugs and errors. Version 3.0 FCS will be very early 2005.
This release is dedicated to the memory of Jeremy Black (main instigator of the ETCSL projects).
This is the latest release (is it not production quality). The user guide. The developer documentation. The download page.
See chapter 2 (Change Log) of the User Guide for full details of what has changed.
Highlights
New features include:
Compatibility
For version 3 we decided that it was worthwhile making a few incompatible changes in order to clean up a few things that have caused trouble in previous versions. For example: some recent classes have been renamed (particularly the ontologies support classes) and a few events added (see below); datastores created by version 3 will probably not read properly in version 2. If you have problems use the mailing list and we'll help you fix your code!
Contributions
A big "thank you" to the following contributors of new code to this release (please let me know if I missed you out!):
See also
The last production quality release.
Developer documentation for this release.
The 2.1 release.
Developer documentation for this release.
The full-function version of 2.0.
Developer documentation for this release.
The first (fairly) stable full-function version of 2.0.
Developer documentation for this release.
