GATE Version 5.1 release (December 2009)

Version 5.1 is a major increment with lots of new features and integration of a number of important systems from 3rd parties (e.g. LingPipe, OpenNLP, OpenCalais, a revised UIMA connector). We've stuck with the 5 series (instead of jumping to 6.0) because the core remains stable and backwards compatible.

Other highlights include:

• an entirely new ontology API from Johann Petrak of OFAI (the old one is still available but as a plugin)
• new benchmarking facilities for JAPE from Andrew Borthwick and colleagues at Intelius
• new quality assurance tools from Thomas Heitz and colleagues at Ontotext and Sheffield
• a generic tagger integration framework from René Witte of Concordia University
• several new code contributions from Ontotext, including a large knowledge base gazetteer and various plugin wrappers from Marin Nozchev, Georgi Georgiev and colleagues
• a revised and reordered user guide, amalgamated with the programmers' guide and other materials
• Groovy support, application composition, section-by-section processing and lots of other bits and pieces

For full details, see the change log in the user guide. GATE is available to download from http://gate.ac.uk/download/.