GATE Training Course, Sheffield 27-28th April 2006

The GATE team at the University of Sheffield will be running a 2-day training course on 27-8/4/2006.

The course will be aimed at intermediate users who wish to begin tackling advanced development with GATE. (It will be less appropriate, though still possible, for those with no prior knowledge.)

Day 1:

• Introduction: GATE after 10 years [HC]
• Development eco-system:
  • as an IDE (the GATE GUI) [DM]
  • as a library (building components, usage in Eclipse, unit tests) [VT/JN]
• Finite state transduction for Information Extraction and other tasks:
  • ANNIE [DM]
  • JAPE [DM/AS]
• GATE APIs, CREOLE lifecycle, Java for JAPE [VT]
• Corpora, evaluation tools [DM]
• Questions and issues raised by participants

Day 2:

• Working with ontologies [KB]
• Information retrieval: Lucene, Google, Yahoo [JN]
• GATE and IBM's UIMA - interoperability layer [IR]
• Towards GATE version 4
  • The new machine learning API [JN]
  • The ANNIC concordancer [NA]
  • JAPE 4 [AS]
  • Annotation Factories and GLEAM [HC]
• Questions and issues raised by participants

Registration and accomodation: contact Suman Aswani.

Fees (not including accomodation):

• £950 (commercial - 1375 euro)
• £450 (research - 650 euro)
• £150 (students - 220 euro)

Attendees will be expected to bring their own laptop with GATE, Java and Eclipse pre-installed (a limited number of machines may be available by prior request). All examples will run both on Linux and less stable operating systems.