Log in Help
Print
Home 〉 releases 〉 gate-5.1-beta2-build3402-ALL 〉 plugins 〉 Parser_RASP 〉 doc
 

RASP2 plugin for GATE

Next: Modules           

Overview

This resource is an integration of the RASP System into the GATE framework.

RASP is a domain-independent, robust parsing system for English. For ease of installation, the system is distributed in the form of binaries for 3 widespread unix architectures (Intel-32bit and -64bit/Linux, and Sparc/Solaris). It is free for research and evaluation purposes. RASP is described in :

Briscoe, E., J. Carroll and R. Watson (2006) The Second Release of the RASP System. In Proceedings of the COLING/ACL 2006 Interactive Presentation Sessions, Sydney, Australia.

GATE is an infrastructure for developing and deploying software components that process human language. GATE helps scientists and developers in three ways:

  1. by specifiying an architecture, or organisational structure, for language processing software;
  2. by providing a framework, or class library, that implements the architecture and can be used to embed language processing capabilities in diverse applications;
  3. by providing a development environment built on top of the framework made up of convenient graphical tools for developing components.
Please contact the respective projects for any question related to RASP or GATE. You can use the DigitalPebble user group for any question specific to this plugin.

Installation

RASP

RASP needs to be installed. Please note that RASP is available only on Unix, Linux or Mac platforms. In the rest of this document we'll assume that RASP has been installed on /usr/local/bin/RASP2.

First go to the directory where you've installed RASP and enter the following command :

echo "This is a test" | ./scripts/rasp.sh"

after a few seconds you should get something similar to :

(|This:1_DD1| |be+s:2_VBZ| |a:3_AT1| |test:4_NN1|) 1 ; (-4.902)

(|ncsubj| |be+s:2_VBZ| |This:1_DD1| _)
(|xcomp| _ |be+s:2_VBZ| |test:4_NN1|)
(|det| |test:4_NN1| |a:3_AT1|)

If this is not the case, check that you've installed RASP properly and that it is available for your platform.

RASP2 plugin

The plugin is provided as a jar file compiled with Java 1.5. However, if you need to make changes or compile it with a different version, you can use the ANT script  to recompile the source code.

The RASP2 plugin needs to be enabled from the plugin console in the GATE GUI. Check the GATE documentation to see how to do that.

The plugin consists in a number or modules which are detailed in the following section.