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 Changing GATE’s launch configuration
 2.5 Configuring GATE
 2.6 Building GATE
 2.7 Uninstalling GATE
 2.8 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 Installing and updating CREOLE Plugins
 3.7 Loading and Using Processing Resources
 3.8 Creating and Running an Application
 3.9 Saving Applications and Language Resources
 3.10 Keyboard Shortcuts
 3.11 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 Modelling Relations between Annotations
 7.8 Duplicating a Resource
 7.9 Persistent Applications
 7.10 Ontologies
 7.11 Loading Annotation Schemas
 7.12 Creating a New CREOLE Resource
 7.13 Adding Support for a New Document Format
 7.14 Using GATE Embedded in a Multithreaded Environment
 7.15 Using GATE Embedded within a Spring Application
 7.16 Groovy for GATE
 7.17 Saving Config Data to gate.xml
 7.18 Annotation merging through the API
 7.19 Using Resource Helpers to Extend the API
 7.20 Converting a Directory Plugin to a Maven Plugin
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
 8.11 JAPE Plus
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 Adding your plugin to the default list
 12.5 Updating this User Guide
III  CREOLE Plugins
13 Gazetteers
 13.1 Introduction to Gazetteers
 13.2 ANNIE Gazetteer
 13.3 OntoGazetteer
 13.4 Gaze Ontology Gazetteer Editor
 13.5 Hash Gazetteer
 13.6 Flexible Gazetteer
 13.7 Gazetteer List Collector
 13.8 OntoRoot Gazetteer
 13.9 Large KB Gazetteer
 13.10 The Shared Gazetteer for multithreaded processing
 13.11 Extended Gazetteer
 13.12 Feature Gazetteer
14 Working with Ontologies
 14.1 Data Model for Ontologies
 14.2 Ontology Event Model
 14.3 The Ontology Plugin
 14.4 GATE Ontology Editor
 14.5 Ontology Annotation Tool
 14.6 Relation Annotation Tool
 14.7 Using the ontology API
 14.8 Ontology-Aware JAPE Transducer
 14.9 Annotating Text with Ontological Information
 14.10 Populating Ontologies
15 Non-English Language Support
 15.1 Language Identification
 15.2 French Plugin
 15.3 German Plugin
 15.4 Romanian Plugin
 15.5 Arabic Plugin
 15.6 Chinese Plugin
 15.7 Hindi Plugin
 15.8 Russian Plugin
 15.9 Bulgarian Plugin
 15.10 Danish Plugin
 15.11 Welsh Plugin
16 Domain Specific Resources
 16.1 Biomedical Support
17 Tools for Social Media Data
 17.1 Tools for Twitter
 17.2 Twitter JSON format
 17.3 Exporting GATE documents as JSON
 17.4 Low-level PRs for Tweets
 17.5 Handling multi-word hashtags
 17.6 The TwitIE Pipeline
18 Parsers
 18.1 SUPPLE Parser
 18.2 Stanford Parser
19 Machine Learning
 19.1 Brief introduction to machine learning in GATE
20 Tools for Alignment Tasks
 20.1 Introduction
 20.2 The Tools
21 Crowdsourcing Data with GATE
 21.1 The Basics
 21.2 Entity classification
 21.3 Entity annotation
22 Combining GATE and UIMA
 22.1 Embedding a UIMA AE in GATE
 22.2 Embedding a GATE CorpusController in UIMA
23 More (CREOLE) Plugins
 23.1 Verb Group Chunker
 23.2 Noun Phrase Chunker
 23.3 TaggerFramework
 23.4 Chemistry Tagger
 23.5 TextRazor Annotation Service
 23.6 Annotating Numbers
 23.7 Annotating Measurements
 23.8 Annotating and Normalizing Dates
 23.9 Snowball Based Stemmers
 23.10 GATE Morphological Analyzer
 23.11 Flexible Exporter
 23.12 Configurable Exporter
 23.13 Annotation Set Transfer
 23.14 Schema Enforcer
 23.15 Information Retrieval in GATE
 23.16 WordNet in GATE
 23.17 Kea - Automatic Keyphrase Detection
 23.18 Annotation Merging Plugin
 23.19 Copying Annotations between Documents
 23.20 LingPipe Plugin
 23.21 OpenNLP Plugin
 23.22 Stanford CoreNLP
 23.23 Content Detection Using Boilerpipe
 23.24 Inter Annotator Agreement
 23.25 Schema Annotation Editor
 23.26 Coref Tools Plugin
 23.27 Pubmed Format
 23.28 MediaWiki Format
 23.29 Fast Infoset Document Format
 23.30 GATE JSON Document Format
 23.31 Bdoc Format (JSON, YAML, MsgPack)
 23.32 DataSift Document Format
 23.33 CSV Document Support
 23.34 TermRaider term extraction tools
 23.35 Document Normalizer
 23.36 Developer Tools
 23.37 Linguistic Simplifier
 23.38 GATE-Time
 23.39 StringAnnotation Plugin
 23.40 CorpusStats Plugin
 23.41 ModularPipelines Plugin
 23.42 Java Plugin
 23.43 Python Plugin
IV  The GATE Family: Cloud, MIMIR, Teamware
24 GATE Cloud
 24.1 GATE Cloud services: an overview
 24.2 Using GATE Cloud services
 24.3 Annotation Jobs on GATE Cloud
 24.4 GATE Cloud Pipeline URLs
25 GATE Teamware: A Web-based Collaborative Corpus Annotation Tool
 25.1 Introduction
 25.2 Requirements for Multi-Role Collaborative Annotation Environments
 25.3 Teamware: Architecture, Implementation, and Examples
 25.4 Practical Applications
26 GATE Mímir
Appendices
A Change Log
 A.1 Version 9.0.1 (March 2021)
 A.2 Version 9.0 (February 2021)
 A.3 Version 8.6.1 (January 2020)
 A.4 Version 8.6 (June 2019)
 A.5 Version 8.5.1 (June 2018)
 A.6 Version 8.5 (May 2018)
 A.7 Version 8.4.1 (June 2017)
 A.8 Version 8.4 (February 2017)
 A.9 Version 8.3 (January 2017)
 A.10 Version 8.2 (May 2016)
 A.11 Version 8.1 (June 2015)
 A.12 Version 8.0 (May 2014)
 A.13 Version 7.1 (November 2012)
 A.14 Version 7.0 (February 2012)
 A.15 Version 6.1 (April 2011)
 A.16 Version 6.0 (November 2010)
 A.17 Version 5.2.1 (May 2010)
 A.18 Version 5.2 (April 2010)
 A.19 Version 5.1 (December 2009)
 A.20 Version 5.0 (May 2009)
 A.21 Version 4.0 (July 2007)
 A.22 Version 3.1 (April 2006)
 A.23 January 2005
 A.24 December 2004
 A.25 September 2004
 A.26 Version 3 Beta 1 (August 2004)
 A.27 July 2004
 A.28 June 2004
 A.29 April 2004
 A.30 March 2004
 A.31 Version 2.2 – August 2003
 A.32 Version 2.1 – February 2003
 A.33 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.4 Gazetteer Visual Resource - GAZE
 C.5 Google Translator PR
D Design Notes
 D.1 Patterns
 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.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
H Copyright and Licence
References
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