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How to get the stanford NER plugin working with GATE?

I am new to GATE (version 8.0) and trying to get the Stanford NER working as part of the processing pipeline.

If I just do a search for Stanford in the plugins I don't see it:

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I'm finding conflicting information online about how to add it in.

I know that there is this plugin file. I also see that there is a StanfordNER plugin listed in the GATE docs. I saw this on a stanford mailing list. Plus I saw this old post from stackoverflow: Stanford_CoreNLP plugin for gate

How do I get Stanford NER installed and working with GATE?

Solution

  • I am new to GATE (version 8.0)

    The Stanford_CoreNLP plugin was introduced in June 2014, after the release of GATE version 8.0, so you need to download a more recent nightly snapshot build and install that instead. In version 8.0 the Stanford POS tagger and parser were available as separate plugins (as you show in your screenshot) but the NER tools were not included at that point.

    As a general rule, if you want to be sure you're looking at the correct version of the GATE user guide then you should access it via the "help" menu in GATE Developer. The user guide link on the GATE website refers to the latest snapshot, not to a numbered release.

    Edit June 2015: GATE Developer version 8.1 has now been released, which includes the Stanford_CoreNLP plugin.