[Corpora-List] GATE training course in Sheffield

From: Hamish Cunningham (hamish@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Mar 31 2006 - 17:54:20 MET DST

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    [Apologies for multiple copies]

    The GATE team at the University of Sheffield (http://gate.ac.uk) will
    be running a 2-day training course on April 27-28th.

    More details: http://gate.ac.uk/training/course-april-2006.html

    GATE is a widely-used open source system for text mining, information
    extraction, semantic annotation and other language-related tasks.

    GATE is...
    - like Eclipse for Natural Language Engineering, like Lucene of Information
       Extraction, a leading toolkit for Text Mining
    - used worldwide by thousands of scientists, companies, teachers and
       students
    - comprised of an architecture, a free open source framework (or SDK),
       graphical development environment and many plugins
    - used for all sorts of language processing tasks, including Information
       Extraction in many languages
    - funded by the EPSRC, BBSRC, AHRC, the EU and commercial users
    - 100% Java, a reference implementation of ISO TC37/SC4 and used with XCES
       in the ANC
    - 10 years old in 2005, used in many research projects and interoperable
       with IBM's UIMA
    - based on MVC, mobile code, continuous integration, and test-driven
       development, with code hosted on SourceForge

    Best,

    Hamish 

    --
Dr. Hamish Cunningham
Senior Research Scientist
Department of Computer Science
University of Sheffield
Regent Court
211 Portobello St.
Sheffield  S1 4DP
United Kingdom
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/

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