Following on their 2009 summer school in July, Hamish Cunningham and crew have finished the initial integration of LingPipe into GATE (aka the “General Architecture for Text Engineering”, described on their home page as the “Eclipse of natural language engineering”).
So far, the GATE integration includes LingPipe’s tokenization, sentence splitting, part-of-speech tagging, named-entity (mention) recognition, and language ID (which I suppose means classifiers are integrated to some degree).
The integration is now available in the GATE nightly builds from the
You can find it under gate/plugins/LingPipe.
Although I don’t see them yet, Hamish tells me there will soon be details in:
- GATE User Guide (online), and
- GATE User Guide (PDF) [8+MB].
The integration was carried out with Alias-i’s permission and LingPipe remains under our Royalty-Free License. GATE itself is distributed under the more permissive LGPL.
LingPipe Blog 
August 13, 2009 at 5:45 am |
tnx folks; re. the docs they’re in flux before our upcoming 5.1 release; in the meantime the list of plugins from LingPipe is up-to-date on http://gate.ac.uk/gate/doc/plugins.html
hopefully we’ll get the learning functions going later on too
my thanks to Alias-I for allowing us to redistribute their stuff :-)
hamish
August 18, 2009 at 8:43 pm |
Also check out Manu Konchady’s book, Building Search Applications: Lucene, LingPipe, and Gate —
http://www.amazon.com/Building-Search-Applications-Lucene-LingPipe/dp/0615204252