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/
