Revision: 16356
http://gate.svn.sourceforge.net/gate/?rev=16356&view=rev
Author: ian_roberts
Date: 2012-11-29 12:57:45 +0000 (Thu, 29 Nov 2012)
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Consolidating changelog.
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\def\rcSubsubsect#1{\subsubsect{#1}}
\fi
-\rcSect[next-release]{Next Release}
+%\rcSect[next-release]{Next Release}
-\rcSubsect{November 2012}
+\rcSect[7.1]{Version 7.1 (November 2012)}
-The method of populating a corpus from a single file has been updated to allow
any mime type
-to be used when creating the new documents.
+\rcSubsect{New plugins}
-A new document format plugin, \verb!Format_MediaWiki!, has been added to allow
the easy use
-of documents containing MediaWiki markup. This includes both plain text
documents containing
-markup, or XML dump files (such as those produced by Wikipedia).
-See Section~\ref{sec:creole:mediawiki} for more details.
+The \emph{TermRaider} plugin (see Section~\ref{sec:creole:termraider}) has
+provides a toolkit and sample application for term extraction.
-The OpenNLP plugin has been completely revised to use Apache OpenNLP 1.5.2 and
-the corresponding set of models. See Section~\ref{sec:misc-creole:opennlp} for
-details.
+Two new plugins, \emph{Tagger\_Zemanta} (see
+Section~\ref{sec:misc-creole:zemanta}) and \emph{Tagger\_Lupedia} (see
+Section~\ref{sec:misc-creole:lupedia}) provide PRs that wrap online annotation
+services provided by Zemanta and Ontotext.
-The Stanford Parser plugin (see Section~\ref{sec:parsers:stanford}) has been
-updated to parser version 2.0.4.
+A new plugin named \emph{Coref\_Tools} includes a framework for fast
+co-reference processing, and one PR that performs orthographical co-reference
in
+the style of the ANNIE Orthomatcher. See Section~\ref{sec:creole:coref-tools}
+for full details.
-The TermRaider plugin (see Section~\ref{sec:creole:termraider}) has been added
-to provide a toolkit and sample application for term extraction.
+A new \emph{Configurable Exporter} PR in the Tools plugin, allowing annotations
+and features to be exported in formats specified by the user (e.g. for use with
+external machine learning tools). See Section~\ref{sec:misc-creole:confexport}
+for details.
-Two new plugins, Tagger\_Zemanta (see Section~\ref{sec:misc-creole:zemanta})
and
-Tagger\_Lupedia (see Section~\ref{sec:misc-creole:lupedia}) have been added in
-GATE. The two plugins have PRs that wrap online annotation services provided
by
-Zemanta and Ontotext.
+Support for reading a number of new document formats has also been added:
+\begin{description}
+\item[PubMed] and the Cochrane Library formats (see
+ Section~\ref{sec:creole:pubmed}).
+\item[CoNLL ``IOB''] format (see Section~\ref{sec:corpora:conll}).
+\item[MediaWiki] markup, both plain text and XML dump files such as those from
+ Wikipedia (see Section~\ref{sec:creole:mediawiki}).
+\end{description}
-\rcSubsect{October 2012}
+In addition, ``ready-made applications'' have been added to many existing
+plugins (notably the \emph{Lang\_*} non-English language plugins) to make it
+easier to experiment with their PRs.
-The PRs defined in the ANNIE plugin are now described by annotations on the
Java classes
-rather than explicitly inside creole.xml. The main reason for this change is
to enable the
-definitions to be inherited to any subclasses of these PRs. Creating an empty
subclass is a
-common way of providing a PR with a different set of default parameters (this
is used extensively
-in the language plugins to provide custom gazetteers and named entity
transducers). This has
-the added benefit of ensuring that new features also automatically percolate
down to these
-subclasses.
+\rcSubsect{Library updates}
-The corpus parameter of LanguageAnalyser (an interface most, if not all, PRs
implement) is
-now annotated as \verb|@Optional| as most implementations do not actually
require the
-parameter to be set.
+Updated the Stanford Parser plugin (see Section~\ref{sec:parsers:stanford}) to
+version 2.0.4 of the parser itself, and added run-time parameters to the PR to
+control the parser's dependency options.
-The following plugins now expose ready made applications to make experimenting
with
-the PRs they contain easier: Lang\_Arabic, Lang\_Cebuano, Lang\_French,
Lang\_German,
-Lang\_Romanian, and Tagger\_PennBio.
+The Measurement and Number taggers have been upgraded to use JAPE+ instead of
+JAPE. This should result in faster processing, and also allows for more memory
+efficient duplication of PR instances, i.e. when a pool of applications is
+created.
-\rcSubsect{July 2012}
+The OpenNLP plugin has been completely revised to use Apache OpenNLP 1.5.2 and
+the corresponding set of models. See Section~\ref{sec:misc-creole:opennlp} for
+details.
-A new plugin was added to the Tools plugin, called Configurable
-Exporter. This plugin allows annotations and features to be exported
-in formats specified by the user. It is documented in
-Section~\ref{sec:misc-creole:confexport}.
+\rcSubsect{GATE Embedded API changes}
-\rcSubsect{May 2012}
-A new plugin was added that supports the loading of PubMed text documents into
-GATE. Details are included in Section~\ref{sec:creole:pubmed}.
+Some of the most significant changes in this version are ``under the bonnet''
+in GATE Embedded:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item The class loading architecture underlying the loading of plugins and the
+ generation of code from JAPE grammars has been re-worked. The new version
+ allows for the complete unloading of plugins and for better memory handling
of
+ generated classes. Different plugins can now also use different versions of
the
+ same 3rd party libraries. There have also been a number of changes to the way
+ plugins are (un)loaded which should provide for more consistent behaviour.
+\item The GATE XML format has been updated to handle more value types
+ (essentially every data type supported by XStream
+ (\url{http://xstream.codehaus.org/faq.html}) should be usable as feature name
+ or value. Files in the new format can be opened without error by older GATE
+ versions, but the data for the previously-unsupported types will be
+ interpreted as a String, containing an XML fragment.
+\item The PRs defined in the ANNIE plugin are now described by annotations on
+ the Java classes rather than explicitly inside creole.xml. The main reason
for
+ this change is to enable the definitions to be inherited to any subclasses of
+ these PRs. Creating an empty subclass is a common way of providing a PR with
a
+ different set of default parameters (this is used extensively in the language
+ plugins to provide custom gazetteers and named entity transducers). This has
+ the added benefit of ensuring that new features also automatically percolate
+ down to these subclasses. If you have developed your own PR that extends one
+ of the ANNIE ones you may find it has acquired new parameters that were not
+ there previously, you may need to use the \verb!@HiddenCreoleParameter!
+ annotation to suppress them.
+\item The corpus parameter of LanguageAnalyser (an interface most, if not all,
+ PRs implement) is now annotated as \verb|@Optional| as most implementations
+ do not actually require the parameter to be set.
+\item When saving an application the plugins are now saved in the same order in
+ which they were originally loaded into GATE. This ensures that dependencies
+ between plugins are correctly maintained when applications are restored.
+\item API support for working with relations between annotations was added. See
+ Section~\ref{sec:api:relations} for more details.
+\item The method of populating a corpus from a single file has been updated to
+ allow any mime type to be used when creating the new documents.
+\end{itemize}
-The Measurement and Number taggers have been upgraded to use JAPE+ instead of
JAPE.
-This should result in faster processing, and also allows for more memory
efficient
-duplication of PR instances, i.e. when a pool of applications is created.
+And numerous smaller bug fixes and performance improvements\ldots
-\rcSubsect{March 2012}
-The class loading architecture underlying the loading of plugins and the
generation
-of code from JAPE grammars has been re-worked. The new version allows for the
complete
-unloading of plugins and for better memory handling of generated classes.
Different
-plugins can now also use different versions of the same 3rd party libraries.
There
-have also been a number of changes to the way plugins are (un)loaded which
should
-provide for more consistent behaviour.
-
-When saving an application the plugins are now saved in the same order in
which they
-were originally loaded into GATE. This ensures that dependencies between
plugins
-are correctly maintained when applications are restored.
-
-A new plugin named Coref\_Tools was added. It includes a framework for fast
-co-reference processing, and one PR that performs orthographical co-reference
in
-the style of the ANNIE Orthomatcher. See Section~\ref{sec:creole:coref-tools}
-for full details.
-
-API support for working with relations between annotations was added. See
-Section~\ref{sec:api:relations} for more details.
-
-The GATE XML format has been updated to handle more value types (essentially
-every data type supported by XStream
-(\url{http://xstream.codehaus.org/faq.html}) should be usable as feature name
or
-value. Files in the new format can be opened without error by older GATE
-versions, but the data for the previously-unsupported types will be interpreted
-as a String, containing an XML fragment.
-
-Updated the Stanford Parser plugin (see Section~\ref{sec:parsers:stanford}) to
-version 2.0.1 of the parser itself, and added run-time parameters to the PR to
-control the parser's dependency options.
-
-\rcSubsect{February 2012}
-
-We have added support for reading files in the CoNLL or ``IOB'' format into
GATE
-documents, described in Section~\ref{sec:corpora:conll}.
+% vim:ft=tex
Modified: userguide/branches/release-7.1/tao_main.tex
===================================================================
--- userguide/branches/release-7.1/tao_main.tex 2012-11-29 02:21:00 UTC (rev
16355)
+++ userguide/branches/release-7.1/tao_main.tex 2012-11-29 12:57:45 UTC (rev
16356)
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
% Is this manual for a real release or for a snapshot? If it is for a release,
% set \gatereleasetrue instead of \gatereleasefalse
-\gatereleasefalse
-%\gatereleasetrue
+%\gatereleasefalse
+\gatereleasetrue
\newif\ifprintedbook
% Is this a book to be printed? If it is to be printed,
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