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255); ">New GATE Releases (14 February 2012)</h1>
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sharing the love on Valentine's day with the release of the
following new GATE software versions.</p>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span
class="cow-sec-number">1.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>GATE
Developer / Embedded 7.0</h1>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">At the
core of many pieces of GATE software sits the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>GATE Embedded</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>library. It provides
infrastructural support for working with text and annotations.
Also included is a large collection of ready-made tools for
various processing tasks.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>GATE
Developer</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is an
integrated development environment for text analysis pipelines
that provides user-friendly access to the facilities offered by
the Embedded library.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">GATE
Developer and Embedded are distributed together and can be found
on our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
class="cow-url" href="http://gate.ac.uk/download" style="color:
rgb(0, 95, 0); text-decoration: underline; ">download</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>page.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">Principal
changes in version 7.0 include:</p>
<ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
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<li>a new CREOLE Plugin Manager user interface. This supports
downloading new CREOLE plugins from remote update sites.</li>
<li>JAPE<span class="cow-escape">_</span>Plus: a new JAPE
execution engine that includes various optimisations and should
be significantly faster than the standard engine.</li>
<li>improved support for processing biomedical text by adding new
PRs to incorporate the following tools: AbGene, the NormaGene
tagger, the GENIA sentence splitter, MutationFinder and the Penn
BioTagger.</li>
</ul>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
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white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">For a
complete list, check the full<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
class="cow-url"
href="http://gate.ac.uk/userguide/chap:changes?gateVersion=7.0"
style="color: rgb(0, 95, 0); text-decoration: underline; ">change
log</a>.</p>
<a class="cow-section-anchor" name="section-2." style="color: rgb(0,
0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
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<h1 class="cow-heading" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
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normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
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-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span
class="cow-sec-number">2.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>GATE
Mímir 4.0</h1>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; "><b>GATE
Mímir</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a
multi-paradigm information management index and repository which
can be used to index and search over text, annotations, semantic
schemas (ontologies), and semantic meta-data (instance data). It
allows queries that arbitrarily mix full-text, structural,
linguistic and semantic queries and that can scale to very large
document collections (millions of documents or more, on
appropriate hardware).</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">New in
version 4.0:</p>
<ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">
<li>support for results ranking</li>
<li>document-centric presentation of results</li>
<li>new search APIs</li>
<li>the mimir-client package now includes a new GATE Processing
Resource that can be used to send documents for indexing to a
Mímir server</li>
<li>now licensed under LGPL (version 3)</li>
</ul>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">For a
full set of changes, please consult the change log chapter in the<span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a class="cow-url"
href="http://gate.ac.uk/mimir/doc/mimir-guide.pdf" style="color:
rgb(0, 95, 0); text-decoration: underline; ">User Guide</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(PDF).</p>
<a class="cow-section-anchor" name="section-3." style="color: rgb(0,
0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); font-size: medium; "></a>
<h1 class="cow-heading" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span
class="cow-sec-number">3.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>GATE
Cloud Paralleliser (GCP) 2.2</h1>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; "><b>GCP</b><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a tool designed to
support the execution of pipelines built using GATE Developer over
large collections of thousands or millions of documents, using a
multi-threaded architecture to make the best use of today's
multi-core processors.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">Changes
include:</p>
<ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">
<li>compatibility with GATE Embedded 7.0</li>
<li>compatibility with GATE Mímir 4.0</li>
<li>backwards compatibility with GATE Mímir 3.x series</li>
<li>now licensed under LGPL (version 3)</li>
</ul>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">This
version is now used for<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
class="cow-url" href="http://gatecloud.net/" style="color:
rgb(0, 95, 0); text-decoration: underline; ">GATECloud.net</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Annotation Jobs.</p>
<a class="cow-section-anchor" name="section-4." style="color: rgb(0,
0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-style:
normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing:
normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto;
text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255,
255); font-size: medium; "></a>
<h1 class="cow-heading" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:
Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span
class="cow-sec-number">4.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>GATECloud.net
updates</h1>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; "><a
class="cow-url" href="http://gatecloud.net/" style="color:
rgb(0, 95, 0); text-decoration: underline; ">GATECloud.net</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is a scalable
pay-as-you-go service that makes GATE available in SaaS (Software
as a Service) mode. There you can use GATE on the Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud via a simple point-and-click web tool to run
analysis processes, index data with Mímir, and manage annotation
projects using<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
class="cow-url" href="http://gate.ac.uk/teamware" style="color:
rgb(0, 95, 0); text-decoration: underline; ">GATE Teamware</a>.</p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">Software
services offered on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a
class="cow-url" href="http://gatecloud.net/" style="color:
rgb(0, 95, 0); text-decoration: underline; ">GATECloud.net</a><span
class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>have been updated to use
the newly released versions:</p>
<ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial,
sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight:
normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2;
text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;
white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: medium; ">
<li>a Mímir version 4.0 server distribution is now available;</li>
<li>Annotation Jobs now use GCP version 2.2, and GATE Embedded
7.0.<br>
</li>
</ul>
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