New releases bringing GATE and Python closer together
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Release The GATE Team is proud to announce two new releases that bring GATE and Python together: Python GateNLP (version 1.0): a Python 3 package that brings many of the concepts and the ease of handling documents, annotations and features to Python. GATE Python Plugin (version 3.0): a new plugin that can be used from Java GATE to process documents using Python code and the methods provided by the Python GateNLP package Both releases are meant as first releases to a wider community to give feedback about what users need and what the basic design should look like.  Feedback Users are inv ..read more
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From Entity Recognition to Ethical Recognition: a museum terminology journey
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This guest blog post from Jonathan Whitson Cloud tells the story of "how a relatively simple entity recognition project at the Horniman Museum has, thanks to the range and flexibility of tools available in GATE, opened the door to a method for the democratisation and decolonisation of terminology in Museums." In 2018 the Horniman Museum opened a new long term display called the World Gallery. As is usual with museum displays, there was only a very limited amount of space for text giving context to the over 3,000 items in the cases. As is also now usual, the Horniman looked to its website t ..read more
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Online Abuse toward Candidates during the UK General Election 2019
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In this blog post I’m going to discuss the 2019 UK general election and the increase in abuse aimed at politicians online. We collected 4.2 million tweets sent to or from election candidates in the six week period spanning from the start of November until shortly after the December 12th election. The graph above shows the who received the most abuse up to and including December 14th, with Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn receiving the most by far. The 2016 "Brexit" referendum left the parliament and the nation divided. Since then we have seen two general elections, and two Prime Minister ..read more
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Which MPs changed party affiliation, 2017-2019
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As part of our work tracking Twitter abuse towards MPs and candidates going into the December 12th general election I've been updating our data files regarding party membership. I thought you might be interested to see the result ..read more
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In the News: Online Abuse of Politicians, BBC
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We've been working together with the BBC to bring public attention to the issue of online abuse against politicians. Rising tensions in Q1 and Q2 of 2019 meant that politicians were seeing more verbal abuse on Twitter than we have previously observed. The findings were presented on the 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock news on Tuesday, August 6th, and you can see in the histogram above that we found the level of incivility rising to almost 4%. You can see the BBC article describing the work here. The BBC also did a survey. They found 139 MPs out of the 172 who responded to their survey who said either ..read more
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GATE Cloud services for Google Sheets featured in the CLARIN Newsflash
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CLARIN ERIC is a research infrastructure through Europe and beyond to encourage the sharing and sustainability of language data and tools for research in the humanities and social sciences.  We are pleased to announce that our functions for text analysis in Google Sheets were featured in the July 2019 issue of the CLARIN Newsflash. We are still working on getting Google to publish our add-on, which we hope to have available in the marketplace in a few months. Until then, you can follow the instructions in our previous blog post to use this tool, which currently provides standard and Twitter-o ..read more
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GATE Cloud services for Google Sheets
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Spreadsheets are an increasingly popular way of storing all kinds of information, including text, and giving it some informal structure, and systems like Google Sheets are especially popular for collaborative work and sharing data. In response to the demand for standard natural language processing (NLP) tasks in spreadsheets, we have developed a Google Sheets add-on that provides functions to carry out the following tasks on text cells using GATE Cloud services: named entity recognition (NER) for standard text (e.g. news) in English, French, or German;NER tuned for tweets in English, French ..read more
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Using GATE to drive robots at Headstart 2019
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In collaboration with Headstart (a charitable trust that provides hands-on science, engineering and maths taster courses), the Department of Computer Science has just run its fourth annual summer school for maths and science A-level students. This residential course ran from 8 to 12 July 2019 and included practical work in computer programming, Lego robots, and project development as well as tours of the campus and talks about the industry. For the third year in a row, we have included a section on natural language processing using GATE Developer and a special GATE plugin (which uses the Shef ..read more
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12th GATE Summer School (17-21 June 2019)
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12th GATE Training Course: open-source natural language processing with an emphasis on social mediaFor over a decade, the GATE team has provided an annual course in using our technology. The course content and track options have changed a bit over the years, but it always includes material to help novices get started with GATE as well as introductory and more advanced use of the JAPE language for matching patterns of document annotations. The latest course also included machine learning, crowdsourcing, sentiment analysis, and an optional programming module (aimed mainly at Java programmers to ..read more
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GATE's submission wins 2nd place in United Nations General Assembly Resolutions Extraction and Elicitation Global Challenge
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In May 2019 we submitted a prototype to the United Nations General Assembly Resolutions Extraction and Elicitation Global Challenge, which asked for submissions using mature natural language processing techniques to produce semantically enhanced, machine-readable documents from PDFs of UN GA resolutions, with particular interest in identifying named entities and items in certain thesauri and ontologies and in making use of the document structure (in particular, the distinction between preamble and operative paragraphs). Our prototype included a customized GATE application designed to read PDFs ..read more
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