GATE (http://gate.ac.uk/) news:
- release 5.1 of GATE Developer is now available, with lots of new features and integration of a number of important systems from 3rd parties (e.g. LingPipe, OpenNLP, OpenCalais, a revised UIMA connector); see http://gate.ac.uk/gate/doc/announce-5-1.html - http://gate.ac.uk/ has had a face lift, and is now running on GATE Wiki - the GATE User Guide has been revised and extended: http://gate.ac.uk/userguide/ - Ontotext (http://www.ontotext.com/) and Matrixware (http://www.matrixware.com/) now offer a new range of commercial support and custom development services The 5.1 release highlights include: - an entirely new ontology API from Johann Petrak of OFAI (the old one is still available but as a plugin) - new benchmarking facilities for JAPE from Andrew Borthwick and colleagues at Intelius - new quality assurance tools from Thomas Heitz and colleagues at Ontotext and Sheffield - a generic tagger integration framework from René Witte of Concordia University - several new code contributions from Ontotext, including a large knowledge base gazetteer and various plugin wrappers from Marin Nozchev, Georgi Georgiev and colleagues - a revised and reordered user guide, amalgamated with the programmers' guide and other materials, and new screencams from Matrixware at http://gate.ac.uk/demos/developer-videos/ - Groovy support, application composition, section-by-section processing and lots of other bits and pieces - new parallel text alignment tools from Sheffield GATE has been supported by the EPSRC, BBSRC, AHRC, JISC, the EU and commercial sponsors. To sponsor GATE see http://gate.ac.uk/sponsor.html The press release: http://gate.ac.uk/press/ or http://www.shef.ac.uk/mediacentre/2009/1450.html Coming soon: GATE Cloud, partly sponsored by http://www.larkc.eu/ 2010 GATE events (http://gate.ac.uk/events.html): - Sheffield, May 10-14, 2010: GATE intensive training course - Malta, May 17-18, 2010: LREC "New Challenges for NLP Architectures" workshop - Malta again, May 17-18, 2010: LREC "NLP and the Semantic Web" tutorial - Vienna, May 31 2010: the 1st Information Retrieval Facility Conference: http://www.ir-facility.org/events/irf-conference/ '
