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A full week of learning [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Architecture_for_Text_Engineering GATE] text mining/information extraction language processing and talks. [http://gate.ac.uk/wiki/TrainingCourseAug2010/ Session wiki]

[[File:GATE_screenshot.png|900px|GATE developer screenshot]]

GATE is written in Java and very Java centric. This makes it portable, fast, and heavyweight. A programming library is available.  It's 14 years old and has many users and contributors.

= Using GATE developer =

* GATE developer is used to process sets of Language Resources in Corpus using Processing Resources. They are typically saved to a serialized Datastore.
* ANNIE, VG (verb group) processors.
* Preserve formatting embeds tags in HTML or XML.
** Different strengths using GATE's graph (node/offset) based XML vs. preserved formatting (original xml/html)

= Information Extraction =

* IR - retrieve docs
* IE - retreive structured data

* Knowledge Engineering - rule based
* Learning Systems - statistical

Old Bailey IE project  - old english (Online)

* POS - assigned in Token (noun, verb, etc)

* Gazateer - gotcha, have to set initialization parameter listsURL before it's
loaded. Must also "save and reinitialize."
* Gazeteer creates Lookups, then transducer creaties named entities
* Then orthomatcher (spelling features in common) coreference associates those

* Annotation Key sets and annotation comparing
** Need setToKeep key in Document Reset for any pre annotated texts

== Evaluation / Metrics ==

* Evaluation metric - mathematically against human annotated
* Scoring - performance measures for annotation types

* Result types - Correct, missing, spurious, partially correct (overlapped)

* Tools > Annotations Diff - comparing human vs machine annotation

* Corpus > Corpus quality assurance - compare by type
* (B has to be the generated set)

* Annotation set transfer (in tools) - transfer between docs in pipeline
** useful for eg HTML that has boilerplate

= Other notes =

== Lucene data store and ANIC ==

* Use <null> for default set
* Go to Datastore for queries
** eg {Person}({Token})+{Money}
* Useful for debugging JAPE and results

[[File:GATE-lucene-person-money.png|800px]]

== To investigate ==

* markupAware for HTML/XML (keeps tags in editor)
* AnnotationStack
* Advanced Options

= JAPE =

* Rules based on tokens and lookups

== To review, gotchas ==

* Rule types : first takes only first match, excludes compound
** a? b for "a b" will match "a b" 
* multiplexor tranducers
* multi-constraint statements
* macros
* To reuse created annotations has to be a separate rule

= To follow up =

* WebSphinx crawler CREOLE plugin

= Conclusions =

While it can do a lot out of the box and benefits from development time and breadth of connectivity, to be useful to more than patient specialists, it needs usability testing. A lot of things are inobvious and too domain specific that with a bit of work could be more broadly useful. Interaction could include a lot more immediate, useful and interesting looking displays. A web based version could have these features. However the team seems somewhat ambivalent about development. :)

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