Contents
I  GATE Basics
1 Introduction
 1.1 How to Use this Text
 1.2 Context
 1.3 Overview
 1.4 Some Evaluations
 1.5 Recent Changes
 1.6 Further Reading
2 Installing and Running GATE
 2.1 Downloading GATE
 2.2 Installing and Running GATE
 2.3 Using System Properties with GATE
 2.4 Configuring GATE
 2.5 Building GATE
 2.6 Uninstalling GATE
 2.7 Troubleshooting
3 Using GATE Developer
 3.1 The GATE Developer Main Window
 3.2 Loading and Viewing Documents
 3.3 Creating and Viewing Corpora
 3.4 Working with Annotations
 3.5 Using CREOLE Plugins
 3.6 Loading and Using Processing Resources
 3.7 Creating and Running an Application
 3.8 Saving Applications and Language Resources
 3.9 Keyboard Shortcuts
 3.10 Miscellaneous
4 CREOLE: the GATE Component Model
 4.1 The Web and CREOLE
 4.2 The GATE Framework
 4.3 The Lifecycle of a CREOLE Resource
 4.4 Processing Resources and Applications
 4.5 Language Resources and Datastores
 4.6 Built-in CREOLE Resources
 4.7 CREOLE Resource Configuration
 4.8 Tools: How to Add Utilities to GATE Developer
5 Language Resources: Corpora, Documents and Annotations
 5.1 Features: Simple Attribute/Value Data
 5.2 Corpora: Sets of Documents plus Features
 5.3 Documents: Content plus Annotations plus Features
 5.4 Annotations: Directed Acyclic Graphs
 5.5 Document Formats
 5.6 XML Input/Output
6 ANNIE: a Nearly-New Information Extraction System
 6.1 Document Reset
 6.2 Tokeniser
 6.3 Gazetteer
 6.4 Sentence Splitter
 6.5 RegEx Sentence Splitter
 6.6 Part of Speech Tagger
 6.7 Semantic Tagger
 6.8 Orthographic Coreference (OrthoMatcher)
 6.9 Pronominal Coreference
 6.10 A Walk-Through Example
II  GATE for Advanced Users
7 GATE Embedded
 7.1 Quick Start with GATE Embedded
 7.2 Resource Management in GATE Embedded
 7.3 Using CREOLE Plugins
 7.4 Language Resources
 7.5 Processing Resources
 7.6 Controllers
 7.7 Duplicating a Resource
 7.8 Persistent Applications
 7.9 Ontologies
 7.10 Creating a New Annotation Schema
 7.11 Creating a New CREOLE Resource
 7.12 Adding Support for a New Document Format
 7.13 Using GATE Embedded in a Multithreaded Environment
 7.14 Using GATE Embedded within a Spring Application
 7.15 Using GATE Embedded within a Tomcat Web Application
 7.16 Groovy for GATE
 7.17 Saving Config Data to gate.xml
 7.18 Annotation merging through the API
8 JAPE: Regular Expressions over Annotations
 8.1 The Left-Hand Side
 8.2 LHS Operators in Detail
 8.3 The Right-Hand Side
 8.4 Use of Priority
 8.5 Using Phases Sequentially
 8.6 Using Java Code on the RHS
 8.7 Optimising for Speed
 8.8 Ontology Aware Grammar Transduction
 8.9 Serializing JAPE Transducer
 8.10 Notes for Montreal Transducer Users
9 ANNIC: ANNotations-In-Context
 9.1 Instantiating SSD
 9.2 Search GUI
 9.3 Using SSD from GATE Embedded
10 Performance Evaluation of Language Analysers
 10.1 Metrics for Evaluation in Information Extraction
 10.2 The Annotation Diff Tool
 10.3 Corpus Quality Assurance
 10.4 Corpus Benchmark Tool
 10.5 A Plugin Computing Inter-Annotator Agreement (IAA)
 10.6 A Plugin Computing the BDM Scores for an Ontology
 10.7 Quality Assurance Summariser for Teamware
11 Profiling Processing Resources
 11.1 Overview
 11.2 Graphical User Interface
 11.3 Command Line Interface
 11.4 Application Programming Interface
12 Developing GATE
 12.1 Reporting Bugs and Requesting Features
 12.2 Contributing Patches
 12.3 Creating New Plugins
 12.4 Updating this User Guide
III  CREOLE Plugins
13 Gazetteers
 13.1 Introduction to Gazetteers
 13.2 ANNIE Gazetteer
 13.3 Gazetteer Visual Resource - GAZE
 13.4 OntoGazetteer
 13.5 Gaze Ontology Gazetteer Editor
 13.6 Hash Gazetteer
 13.7 Flexible Gazetteer
 13.8 Gazetteer List Collector
 13.9 OntoRoot Gazetteer
 13.10 Large KB Gazetteer
 13.11 The Shared Gazetteer for multithreaded processing
14 Working with Ontologies
 14.1 Data Model for Ontologies
 14.2 Ontology Event Model
 14.3 The Ontology Plugin: Current Implementation
 14.4 The Ontology_OWLIM2 plugin: backwards-compatible implementation
 14.5 GATE Ontology Editor
 14.6 Ontology Annotation Tool
 14.7 Relation Annotation Tool
 14.8 Using the ontology API
 14.9 Using the ontology API (old version)
 14.10 Ontology-Aware JAPE Transducer
 14.11 Annotating Text with Ontological Information
 14.12 Populating Ontologies
 14.13 Ontology API and Implementation Changes
15 Non-English Language Support
 15.1 French Plugin
 15.2 German Plugin
 15.3 Romanian Plugin
 15.4 Arabic Plugin
 15.5 Chinese Plugin
 15.6 Hindi Plugin
16 Parsers
 16.1 MiniPar Parser
 16.2 RASP Parser
 16.3 SUPPLE Parser
 16.4 Stanford Parser
17 Machine Learning
 17.1 ML Generalities
 17.2 Batch Learning PR
 17.3 Machine Learning PR
18 Tools for Alignment Tasks
 18.1 Introduction
 18.2 The Tools
19 Combining GATE and UIMA
 19.1 Embedding a UIMA AE in GATE
 19.2 Embedding a GATE CorpusController in UIMA
20 More (CREOLE) Plugins
 20.1 Verb Group Chunker
 20.2 Noun Phrase Chunker
 20.3 TaggerFramework
 20.4 Chemistry Tagger
 20.5 Annotating Numbers
 20.6 Annotating Measurements
 20.7 Annotating and Normalizing Dates
 20.8 ABNER - A Biomedical Named Entity Recogniser
 20.9 Snowball Based Stemmers
 20.10 GATE Morphological Analyzer
 20.11 Flexible Exporter
 20.12 Annotation Set Transfer
 20.13 Schema Enforcer
 20.14 Information Retrieval in GATE
 20.15 Websphinx Web Crawler
 20.16 Google Plugin
 20.17 Yahoo Plugin
 20.18 Google Translator PR
 20.19 WordNet in GATE
 20.20 Kea - Automatic Keyphrase Detection
 20.21 Ontotext JapeC Compiler
 20.22 Annotation Merging Plugin
 20.23 Copying Annotations between Documents
 20.24 OpenCalais Plugin
 20.25 LingPipe Plugin
 20.26 OpenNLP Plugin
 20.27 Tagger_MetaMap Plugin
 20.28 Content Detection Using Boilerpipe
 20.29 Inter Annotator Agreement
 20.30 Schema Annotation Editor
IV  The GATE Family: Cloud, MIMIR, Teamware
21 GATE Cloud
 21.1 GATE Cloud services: an overview
 21.2 Comparison with other systems
 21.3 How to buy services
 21.4 Pricing and discounts
 21.5 Annotation Jobs on GATECloud.net
 21.6 Running Custom Annotation Jobs on GATECloud.net
22 GATE Teamware: A Web-based Collaborative Corpus Annotation Tool
 22.1 Introduction
 22.2 Requirements for Multi-Role Collaborative Annotation Environments
 22.3 Teamware: Architecture, Implementation, and Examples
 22.4 Practical Applications
23 GATE Mímir
Appendices
A Change Log
 A.1 Version 6.1 (April 2011)
 A.2 Version 6.0 (November 2010)
 A.3 Version 5.2.1 (May 2010)
 A.4 Version 5.2 (April 2010)
 A.5 Version 5.1 (December 2009)
 A.6 Version 5.0 (May 2009)
 A.7 Version 4.0 (July 2007)
 A.8 Version 3.1 (April 2006)
 A.9 January 2005
 A.10 December 2004
 A.11 September 2004
 A.12 Version 3 Beta 1 (August 2004)
 A.13 July 2004
 A.14 June 2004
 A.15 April 2004
 A.16 March 2004
 A.17 Version 2.2 – August 2003
 A.18 Version 2.1 – February 2003
 A.19 June 2002
B Version 5.1 Plugins Name Map
C Design Notes
 C.1 Patterns
 C.2 Exception Handling
D JAPE: Implementation
 D.1 Formal Description of the JAPE Grammar
 D.2 Relation to CPSL
 D.3 Initialisation of a JAPE Grammar
 D.4 Execution of JAPE Grammars
 D.5 Using a Different Java Compiler
E Ant Tasks for GATE
 E.1 Declaring the Tasks
 E.2 The packagegapp task - bundling an application with its dependencies
 E.3 The expandcreoles Task - Merging Annotation-Driven Config into creole.xml
F Named-Entity State Machine Patterns
 F.1 Main.jape
 F.2 first.jape
 F.3 firstname.jape
 F.4 name.jape
 F.5 name_post.jape
 F.6 date_pre.jape
 F.7 date.jape
 F.8 reldate.jape
 F.9 number.jape
 F.10 address.jape
 F.11 url.jape
 F.12 identifier.jape
 F.13 jobtitle.jape
 F.14 final.jape
 F.15 unknown.jape
 F.16 name_context.jape
 F.17 org_context.jape
 F.18 loc_context.jape
 F.19 clean.jape
G Part-of-Speech Tags used in the Hepple Tagger
References
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