GATE version 4 released

[Hamish Cunningham <ha...@dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

GATE version 4 is now available for download from Sourceforge (follow
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
---
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/

Re: GATE version 4 released

[Hamish Cunningham <ha...@dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

I suspect that it is out-dated by recent UIMA changes :-(

best

h


Thilo Goetz wrote:
> Does anybody know if the new GATE's UIMA integration works with
> Apache UIMA?  There was some discussion about that on this list
> earlier on, but I don't remember there being any conclusion.
> 
> --Thilo

Re: GATE version 4 released

[Thilo Goetz <tw...@gmx.de>]

Does anybody know if the new GATE's UIMA integration works with
Apache UIMA?  There was some discussion about that on this list
earlier on, but I don't remember there being any conclusion.

--Thilo

Hamish Cunningham wrote:
> GATE version 4 is now available for download from Sourceforge (follow
> 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
> ---
> http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/

CfP: Information Retrieval Facility Conference

[Hamish Cunningham <ha...@dcs.shef.ac.uk>]

=======================================
  INFORMATION RETRIEVAL CONFERENCE 2010
=======================================

The 1st Information Retrieval Facility Conference provides a
multi-disciplinary, scientific forum for researchers and aims at
bringing young researchers into contact with industry at an early stage.
The IRF is a unique organisation based around a supercomputing
facility in Vienna and a growing community of IR scientists.

The 1st IRF Conference tackles 4 complementary research areas:
   * Information retrieval
   * Semantic web technologies for IR
   * Natural language processing for IR
   * Large-scale or distributed computing for the above areas

*The conference proceedings will be published in Springer LNCS.*

General Chair: Hamish Cunningham, University of Sheffield
Programme Chair: Stefan Rueger, The Open University
Programme Committee: see
   http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-conference/programme-committee

The conference takes place in Vienna on the 31st of May 2010, one day
before the IRF Symposium 2010.

More information available here:
   * IRF Conference: http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-conference
   * IRF Symposium: http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-symposium/2010

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission: 8 January 2010
Notification of acceptance: 22 February 2010
Final paper submission: 22 March 2010
IRF Conference: 31 May 2010