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I  GATE Basics
1 Introduction
 1.1 How to Use this Text
 1.2 Context
 1.3 Overview
  1.3.1 Developing and Deploying Language Processing Facilities
  1.3.2 Built-In Components
  1.3.3 Additional Facilities in GATE Developer/Embedded
  1.3.4 An Example
 1.4 Some Evaluations
 1.5 Recent Changes
  1.5.1 Version 7.0 (February 2012)
 1.6 Further Reading
2 Installing and Running GATE
 2.1 Downloading GATE
 2.2 Installing and Running GATE
  2.2.1 The Easy Way
  2.2.2 The Hard Way (1)
  2.2.3 The Hard Way (2): Subversion
  2.2.4 Running GATE Developer on Unix/Linux
 2.3 Using System Properties with GATE
 2.4 Configuring GATE
 2.5 Building GATE
  2.5.1 Using GATE with Maven/Ivy
 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
  3.4.1 The Annotation Sets View
  3.4.2 The Annotations List View
  3.4.3 The Annotations Stack View
  3.4.4 The Co-reference Editor
  3.4.5 Creating and Editing Annotations
  3.4.6 Schema-Driven Editing
  3.4.7 Printing Text with Annotations
 3.5 Using CREOLE Plugins
 3.6 Installing and updating CREOLE Plugins
 3.7 Loading and Using Processing Resources
 3.8 Creating and Running an Application
  3.8.1 Running an Application on a Datastore
  3.8.2 Running PRs Conditionally on Document Features
  3.8.3 Doing Information Extraction with ANNIE
  3.8.4 Modifying ANNIE
 3.9 Saving Applications and Language Resources
  3.9.1 Saving Documents to File
  3.9.2 Saving and Restoring LRs in Datastores
  3.9.3 Saving Application States to a File
  3.9.4 Saving an Application with its Resources (e.g. GATECloud.net)
 3.10 Keyboard Shortcuts
 3.11 Miscellaneous
  3.11.1 Stopping GATE from Restoring Developer Sessions/Options
  3.11.2 Working with Unicode
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
  4.7.1 Configuration with XML
  4.7.2 Configuring Resources using Annotations
  4.7.3 Mixing the Configuration Styles
  4.7.4 Loading Third-Party Libraries using Apache Ivy
 4.8 Tools: How to Add Utilities to GATE Developer
  4.8.1 Putting your tools in a sub-menu
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
  5.4.1 Annotation Schemas
  5.4.2 Examples of Annotated Documents
  5.4.3 Creating, Viewing and Editing Diverse Annotation Types
 5.5 Document Formats
  5.5.1 Detecting the Right Reader
  5.5.2 XML
  5.5.3 HTML
  5.5.4 SGML
  5.5.5 Plain text
  5.5.6 RTF
  5.5.7 Email
  5.5.8 PDF Files and Office Documents
  5.5.9 UIMA CAS Documents
 5.6 XML Input/Output
6 ANNIE: a Nearly-New Information Extraction System
 6.1 Document Reset
 6.2 Tokeniser
  6.2.1 Tokeniser Rules
  6.2.2 Token Types
  6.2.3 English 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)
  6.8.1 GATE Interface
  6.8.2 Resources
  6.8.3 Processing
 6.9 Pronominal Coreference
  6.9.1 Quoted Speech Submodule
  6.9.2 Pleonastic It Submodule
  6.9.3 Pronominal Resolution Submodule
  6.9.4 Detailed Description of the Algorithm
 6.10 A Walk-Through Example
  6.10.1 Step 1 - Tokenisation
  6.10.2 Step 2 - List Lookup
  6.10.3 Step 3 - Grammar Rules
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
  7.4.1 GATE Documents
  7.4.2 Feature Maps
  7.4.3 Annotation Sets
  7.4.4 Annotations
  7.4.5 GATE Corpora
 7.5 Processing Resources
 7.6 Controllers
 7.7 Duplicating a Resource
  7.7.1 Sharable properties
 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
  7.14.1 Duplication in Spring
  7.14.2 Spring pooling
  7.14.3 Further reading
 7.15 Using GATE Embedded within a Tomcat Web Application
  7.15.1 Recommended Directory Structure
  7.15.2 Configuration Files
  7.15.3 Initialization Code
 7.16 Groovy for GATE
  7.16.1 Groovy Scripting Console for GATE
  7.16.2 Groovy scripting PR
  7.16.3 The Scriptable Controller
  7.16.4 Utility methods
 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
  8.1.1 Matching Entire Annotation Types
  8.1.2 Using Features and Values
  8.1.3 Using Meta-Properties
  8.1.4 Building complex patterns from simple patterns
  8.1.5 Matching a Simple Text String
  8.1.6 Using Templates
  8.1.7 Multiple Pattern/Action Pairs
  8.1.8 LHS Macros
  8.1.9 Multi-Constraint Statements
  8.1.10 Using Context
  8.1.11 Negation
  8.1.12 Escaping Special Characters
 8.2 LHS Operators in Detail
  8.2.1 Equality Operators
  8.2.2 Comparison Operators
  8.2.3 Regular Expression Operators
  8.2.4 Contextual Operators
  8.2.5 Custom Operators
 8.3 The Right-Hand Side
  8.3.1 A Simple Example
  8.3.2 Copying Feature Values from the LHS to the RHS
  8.3.3 Optional or Empty Labels
  8.3.4 RHS Macros
 8.4 Use of Priority
 8.5 Using Phases Sequentially
 8.6 Using Java Code on the RHS
  8.6.1 A More Complex Example
  8.6.2 Adding a Feature to the Document
  8.6.3 Finding the Tokens of a Matched Annotation
  8.6.4 Using Named Blocks
  8.6.5 Java RHS Overview
 8.7 Optimising for Speed
 8.8 Ontology Aware Grammar Transduction
 8.9 Serializing JAPE Transducer
  8.9.1 How to Serialize?
  8.9.2 How to Use the Serialized Grammar File?
 8.10 Notes for Montreal Transducer Users
 8.11 JAPE Plus
9 ANNIC: ANNotations-In-Context
 9.1 Instantiating SSD
 9.2 Search GUI
  9.2.1 Overview
  9.2.2 Syntax of Queries
  9.2.3 Top Section
  9.2.4 Central Section
  9.2.5 Bottom Section
 9.3 Using SSD from GATE Embedded
  9.3.1 How to instantiate a searchabledatastore
  9.3.2 How to search in this datastore
10 Performance Evaluation of Language Analysers
 10.1 Metrics for Evaluation in Information Extraction
  10.1.1 Annotation Relations
  10.1.2 Cohen’s Kappa
  10.1.3 Precision, Recall, F-Measure
  10.1.4 Macro and Micro Averaging
 10.2 The Annotation Diff Tool
  10.2.1 Performing Evaluation with the Annotation Diff Tool
  10.2.2 Creating a Gold Standard with the Annotation Diff Tool
 10.3 Corpus Quality Assurance
  10.3.1 Description of the interface
  10.3.2 Step by step usage
  10.3.3 Details of the Corpus statistics table
  10.3.4 Details of the Document statistics table
  10.3.5 GATE Embedded API for the measures
  10.3.6 sec:eval:qapr
 10.4 Corpus Benchmark Tool
  10.4.1 Preparing the Corpora for Use
  10.4.2 Defining Properties
  10.4.3 Running the Tool
  10.4.4 The Results
 10.5 A Plugin Computing Inter-Annotator Agreement (IAA)
  10.5.1 IAA for Classification
  10.5.2 IAA For Named Entity Annotation
  10.5.3 The BDM-Based IAA Scores
 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
  11.1.1 Features
  11.1.2 Limitations
 11.2 Graphical User Interface
 11.3 Command Line Interface
 11.4 Application Programming Interface
  11.4.1 Log4j.properties
  11.4.2 Benchmark log format
  11.4.3 Enabling profiling
  11.4.4 Reporting tool
12 Developing GATE
 12.1 Reporting Bugs and Requesting Features
 12.2 Contributing Patches
 12.3 Creating New Plugins
  12.3.1 What to Call your Plugin
  12.3.2 Writing a New PR
  12.3.3 Writing a New VR
  12.3.4 Writing a ‘Ready Made’ Application
  12.3.5 Distributing Your New Plugins
 12.4 Updating this User Guide
  12.4.1 Building the User Guide
  12.4.2 Making Changes to the User Guide
III  CREOLE Plugins
13 Gazetteers
 13.1 Introduction to Gazetteers
 13.2 ANNIE Gazetteer
  13.2.1 Creating and Modifying Gazetteer Lists
  13.2.2 ANNIE Gazetteer Editor
 13.3 OntoGazetteer
 13.4 Gaze Ontology Gazetteer Editor
  13.4.1 The Gaze Gazetteer List and Mapping Editor
  13.4.2 The Gaze Ontology Editor
 13.5 Hash Gazetteer
  13.5.1 Prerequisites
  13.5.2 Parameters
 13.6 Flexible Gazetteer
 13.7 Gazetteer List Collector
 13.8 OntoRoot Gazetteer
  13.8.1 How Does it Work?
  13.8.2 Initialisation of OntoRoot Gazetteer
  13.8.3 Simple steps to run OntoRoot Gazetteer
 13.9 Large KB Gazetteer
  13.9.1 Quick usage overview
  13.9.2 Dictionary setup
  13.9.3 Additional dictionary configuration
  13.9.4 Processing Resource Configuration
  13.9.5 Runtime configuration
  13.9.6 Semantic Enrichment PR
 13.10 The Shared Gazetteer for multithreaded processing
14 Working with Ontologies
 14.1 Data Model for Ontologies
  14.1.1 Hierarchies of Classes and Restrictions
  14.1.2 Instances
  14.1.3 Hierarchies of Properties
  14.1.4 URIs
 14.2 Ontology Event Model
  14.2.1 What Happens when a Resource is Deleted?
 14.3 The Ontology Plugin: Current Implementation
  14.3.1 The OWLIMOntology Language Resource
  14.3.2 The ConnectSesameOntology Language Resource
  14.3.3 The CreateSesameOntology Language Resource
  14.3.4 The OWLIM2 Backwards-Compatible Language Resource
  14.3.5 Using Ontology Import Mappings
  14.3.6 Using BigOWLIM
  14.3.7 The sesameCLI command line interface
 14.4 The Ontology_OWLIM2 plugin: backwards-compatible implementation
  14.4.1 The OWLIMOntologyLR Language Resource
 14.5 GATE Ontology Editor
 14.6 Ontology Annotation Tool
  14.6.1 Viewing Annotated Text
  14.6.2 Editing Existing Annotations
  14.6.3 Adding New Annotations
  14.6.4 Options
 14.7 Relation Annotation Tool
  14.7.1 Description of the two views
  14.7.2 Create new annotation and instance from text selection
  14.7.3 Create new annotation and add label to existing instance from text selection
  14.7.4 Create and set properties for annotation relation
  14.7.5 Delete instance, label or property
  14.7.6 Differences with OAT and Ontology Editor
 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
  14.13.1 Differences between the implementation plugins
  14.13.2 Changes in the Ontology API
15 Non-English Language Support
 15.1 Language Identification
  15.1.1 Fingerprint Generation
 15.2 French Plugin
 15.3 German Plugin
 15.4 Romanian Plugin
 15.5 Arabic Plugin
 15.6 Chinese Plugin
  15.6.1 Chinese Word Segmentation
 15.7 Hindi Plugin
16 Domain Specific Resources
 16.1 Biomedical Support
  16.1.1 ABNER
  16.1.2 MetaMap
  16.1.3 AbGene
  16.1.4 GENIA
  16.1.5 Penn BioTagger
  16.1.6 MutationFinder
  16.1.7 NormaGene
17 Parsers
 17.1 MiniPar Parser
  17.1.1 Platform Supported
  17.1.2 Resources
  17.1.3 Parameters
  17.1.4 Prerequisites
  17.1.5 Grammatical Relationships
 17.2 RASP Parser
 17.3 SUPPLE Parser
  17.3.1 Requirements
  17.3.2 Building SUPPLE
  17.3.3 Running the Parser in GATE
  17.3.4 Viewing the Parse Tree
  17.3.5 System Properties
  17.3.6 Configuration Files
  17.3.7 Parser and Grammar
  17.3.8 Mapping Named Entities
  17.3.9 Upgrading from BuChart to SUPPLE
 17.4 Stanford Parser
  17.4.1 Input Requirements
  17.4.2 Initialization Parameters
  17.4.3 Runtime Parameters
18 Machine Learning
 18.1 ML Generalities
  18.1.1 Some Definitions
  18.1.2 GATE-Specific Interpretation of the Above Definitions
 18.2 Batch Learning PR
  18.2.1 Batch Learning PR Configuration File Settings
  18.2.2 Case Studies for the Three Learning Types
  18.2.3 How to Use the Batch Learning PR in GATE Developer
  18.2.4 Output of the Batch Learning PR
  18.2.5 Using the Batch Learning PR from the API
 18.3 Machine Learning PR
  18.3.1 The DATASET Element
  18.3.2 The ENGINE Element
  18.3.3 The WEKA Wrapper
  18.3.4 The MAXENT Wrapper
  18.3.5 The SVM Light Wrapper
  18.3.6 Example Configuration File
19 Tools for Alignment Tasks
 19.1 Introduction
 19.2 The Tools
  19.2.1 Compound Document
  19.2.2 CompoundDocumentFromXml
  19.2.3 Compound Document Editor
  19.2.4 Composite Document
  19.2.5 DeleteMembersPR
  19.2.6 SwitchMembersPR
  19.2.7 Saving as XML
  19.2.8 Alignment Editor
  19.2.9 Saving Files and Alignments
  19.2.10 Section-by-Section Processing
20 Combining GATE and UIMA
 20.1 Embedding a UIMA AE in GATE
  20.1.1 Mapping File Format
  20.1.2 The UIMA Component Descriptor
  20.1.3 Using the AnalysisEnginePR
 20.2 Embedding a GATE CorpusController in UIMA
  20.2.1 Mapping File Format
  20.2.2 The GATE Application Definition
  20.2.3 Configuring the GATEApplicationAnnotator
21 More (CREOLE) Plugins
 21.1 Verb Group Chunker
 21.2 Noun Phrase Chunker
  21.2.1 Differences from the Original
  21.2.2 Using the Chunker
 21.3 TaggerFramework
  21.3.1 TreeTagger - Multilingual POS Tagger
  21.3.2 GENIA and Double Quotes
 21.4 Chemistry Tagger
  21.4.1 Using the Tagger
 21.5 Annotating Numbers
  21.5.1 Numbers in Words and Numbers
  21.5.2 Roman Numerals
 21.6 Annotating Measurements
 21.7 Annotating and Normalizing Dates
 21.8 Snowball Based Stemmers
  21.8.1 Algorithms
 21.9 GATE Morphological Analyzer
  21.9.1 Rule File
 21.10 Flexible Exporter
 21.11 Annotation Set Transfer
 21.12 Schema Enforcer
 21.13 Information Retrieval in GATE
  21.13.1 Using the IR Functionality in GATE
  21.13.2 Using the IR API
 21.14 Websphinx Web Crawler
  21.14.1 Using the Crawler PR
  21.14.2 Proxy configuration
 21.15 WordNet in GATE
  21.15.1 The WordNet API
 21.16 Kea - Automatic Keyphrase Detection
  21.16.1 Using the ‘KEA Keyphrase Extractor’ PR
  21.16.2 Using Kea Corpora
 21.17 Annotation Merging Plugin
 21.18 Copying Annotations between Documents
 21.19 OpenCalais Plugin
 21.20 LingPipe Plugin
  21.20.1 LingPipe Tokenizer PR
  21.20.2 LingPipe Sentence Splitter PR
  21.20.3 LingPipe POS Tagger PR
  21.20.4 LingPipe NER PR
  21.20.5 LingPipe Language Identifier PR
 21.21 OpenNLP Plugin
  21.21.1 Parameters common to all PRs
  21.21.2 OpenNLP PRs
  21.21.3 Training new models
 21.22 Content Detection Using Boilerpipe
 21.23 Inter Annotator Agreement
 21.24 Schema Annotation Editor
IV  The GATE Family: Cloud, MIMIR, Teamware
22 GATE Cloud
 22.1 GATE Cloud services: an overview
 22.2 Comparison with other systems
 22.3 How to buy services
 22.4 Pricing and discounts
 22.5 Annotation Jobs on GATECloud.net
  22.5.1 The Annotation Service Charges Explained
  22.5.2 Annotation Job Execution in Detail
 22.6 Running Custom Annotation Jobs on GATECloud.net
  22.6.1 Preparing Your Application: The Basics
  22.6.2 The GATECloud.net environment
23 GATE Teamware: A Web-based Collaborative Corpus Annotation Tool
 23.1 Introduction
 23.2 Requirements for Multi-Role Collaborative Annotation Environments
  23.2.1 Typical Division of Labour
  23.2.2 Remote, Scalable Data Storage
  23.2.3 Automatic annotation services
  23.2.4 Workflow Support
 23.3 Teamware: Architecture, Implementation, and Examples
  23.3.1 Data Storage Service
  23.3.2 Annotation Services
  23.3.3 The Executive Layer
  23.3.4 The User Interfaces
 23.4 Practical Applications
24 GATE Mímir
Appendices
A Change Log
 A.1 Version 7.0 (February 2012)
  A.1.1 Major new features
  A.1.2 Removal of deprecated functionality
  A.1.3 Other enhancements and bug fixes
 A.2 Version 6.1 (April 2011)
  A.2.1 New CREOLE Plugins
  A.2.2 Other new features and improvements
 A.3 Version 6.0 (November 2010)
  A.3.1 Major new features
  A.3.2 Breaking changes
  A.3.3 Other new features and bugfixes
 A.4 Version 5.2.1 (May 2010)
 A.5 Version 5.2 (April 2010)
  A.5.1 JAPE and JAPE-related
  A.5.2 Other Changes
 A.6 Version 5.1 (December 2009)
  A.6.1 New Features
  A.6.2 JAPE improvements
  A.6.3 Other improvements and bug fixes
 A.7 Version 5.0 (May 2009)
  A.7.1 Major New Features
  A.7.2 Other New Features and Improvements
  A.7.3 Specific Bug Fixes
 A.8 Version 4.0 (July 2007)
  A.8.1 Major New Features
  A.8.2 Other New Features and Improvements
  A.8.3 Bug Fixes and Optimizations
 A.9 Version 3.1 (April 2006)
  A.9.1 Major New Features
  A.9.2 Other New Features and Improvements
  A.9.3 Bug Fixes
 A.10 January 2005
 A.11 December 2004
 A.12 September 2004
 A.13 Version 3 Beta 1 (August 2004)
 A.14 July 2004
 A.15 June 2004
 A.16 April 2004
 A.17 March 2004
 A.18 Version 2.2 – August 2003
 A.19 Version 2.1 – February 2003
 A.20 June 2002
B Version 5.1 Plugins Name Map
C Obsolete CREOLE Plugins
 C.1 Ontotext JapeC Compiler
 C.2 Google Plugin
 C.3 Yahoo Plugin
  C.3.1 Using the YahooPR
 C.4 Gazetteer Visual Resource - GAZE
  C.4.1 Display Modes
  C.4.2 Linear Definition Pane
  C.4.3 Linear Definition Toolbar
  C.4.4 Operations on Linear Definition Nodes
  C.4.5 Gazetteer List Pane
  C.4.6 Mapping Definition Pane
 C.5 Google Translator PR
D Design Notes
 D.1 Patterns
  D.1.1 Components
  D.1.2 Model, view, controller
  D.1.3 Interfaces
 D.2 Exception Handling
E Ant Tasks for GATE
 E.1 Declaring the Tasks
 E.2 The packagegapp task - bundling an application with its dependencies
  E.2.1 Introduction
  E.2.2 Basic Usage
  E.2.3 Handling Non-Plugin Resources
  E.2.4 Streamlining your Plugins
  E.2.5 Bundling Extra Resources
 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.4.1 Person
  F.4.2 Location
  F.4.3 Organization
  F.4.4 Ambiguities
  F.4.5 Contextual information
 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
H Copyright and Licence