I worked a lot with GATE in a previous position (not in a library, but in a
research position at the Univ. of Texas at Austin). It's handy in that
there is both a UI version (GATE Developer) and a set of APIs (GATE
Embedded), which were the only versions I worked with. Also nice is the
fact that there is reasonably good documentation from the Univ. of
Sheffield (http://gate.ac.uk/), including some basic video tutorials and
slides from recent training courses that you can step through (
http://gate.ac.uk/wiki/TrainingCourseJune2013/).

Pretty much all the standard text-mining tools can be accessed through
GATE, by creating a pipeline that incorporates the tools you need. There
are also some default machine learning options if you don't want to roll
your own. There's even a UIMA plug-in if you'd like to use it inside a GATE
pipeline.

Danielle

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:15 PM, stuart yeates <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> There have been some great software recommendations in this thread, that I
> really don't want to quibble with. What I'd like to quibble with is the
> software-first approach. We've all tried the software-first approach, how
> many of us were happy with it?
>
> There is a standard in this area and that standard appears to have at
> least two non-trivial implementations, including from one software
> distributor whose name we all recognise.
>
> SPEC: http://docs.oasis-open.org/**uima/v1.0/uima-v1.0.html<http://docs.oasis-open.org/uima/v1.0/uima-v1.0.html>
> APACHE UIMA: http://uima.apache.org/
> GATE: http://gate.ac.uk/
>
> Anyone have experience using the standard or these two implementations?
>
> cheers
> stuart
>
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> Stuart Yeates
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>