Re: Human annotation tool for UIMA

Hi Thilo

GATE is LGPL. Besides the page I mentioned earlier, 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gate also contains a lot of information 
about GATE (mailing lists, forums, feature requests, etc..)

J.
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>> GATE (http://gate.ac.uk) is open source and allows to create 
>> annotations manually. The interface is tightly bound to the GATE API 
>> so porting it to UIMA would be a relatively costly operation. It 
>> would certainly be easier to write a new annotation tool from 
>> scratch. However GATE could be used in the meantime to annotate 
>> documents and save them as XML, which could be loaded by UIMA at a 
>> later stage.
>>
>> There is also a UIMA plugin for GATE which allows to call UIMA 
>> processes from GATE and vice versa; but I am not sure it works with 
>> the Apache version of UIMA. That could help using existing UIMA 
>> resources for pre-annotating documents.
>>
>> Hope that helps
>>
>> Julien
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> Hi Julien,
>
> what open source license is GATE under?  I looked at the documentation,
> but couldn't find it.
>