GATE version 4.0 released
julien nioche
the download link from http://gate.ac.uk/).
Version 4 includes major new facilities for annotation indexing and
search, machine learning, scaleable ontology support from OWLIM
(http://www.ontotext.com/owlim/), ontology-based document annotation,
and parallel corpus alignment. There is a raft of efficiency and
infrastructure improvements including revamped HTML handling, Java 5
support and numerous optimisations and bug fixes. The set of plugins
available has expanded to include around 150 components, which
integrate
with many high-quality language processing tools from the wider
research
community (http://gate.ac.uk/gate/doc/plugins.html).
GATE is free and open (under the LGPL licence) and you are very
welcome
to use it for both commercial and research purposes. A number of
businesses now use GATE in production applications, from large
corporates like Thompson or AT&T to startups like Garlik or
Innovantage.
Research, teaching and student users represent a high proportion of
labs working on language and knowledge worldwide.
Plans for the future include:
- a new version of the JAPE finite state annotation processing
language
- more and better integration with related systems and tools
- SAFE, the Semantic Annotation Factory Environment:
http://gate.ac.uk/safe/
GATE is developed on Ubuntu (and other less advanced operating
systems).
Attached the changelog for version 4.
Best regards,
Hamish Cunningham & the GATE team