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12th GATE Training Course: Large Scale Text and Social Media Analytics with GATE
The GATE training course will be held from 17-21 June 2019 at the University of Sheffield, UK. Early bird registration is available at a reduced rate before 1 May.
This event will follow a similar format to that of the 2018 course, with one track Monday to Thursday, and two parallel tracks on Friday, all delivered by the GATE development team. For more information about the schedule, course materials, travel, accommodation, local information etc. please see the
FIG participants wiki
The focus will be on mining text and social media content with GATE. Many of the hands on exercises will be focused on analysing news articles, tweets, and other textual content.
The planned schedule is as follows (NOTE: may still be subject to timetabling changes).
Single track from Monday to Thursday (9am - 5pm):
Monday
: Module 1: Basic Information Extraction with GATE
Intro to GATE + Information Extraction (IE)
Corpus Annotation and Evaluation
Writing Information Extraction Patterns with JAPE
Tuesday
: Module 2: Using GATE for social media analysis
Challenges for analysing social media, GATE for social media
Twitter intro + JSON structure
Language identification, tokenisation for Twitter
POS tagging and Information Extraction for Twitter
Wednesday
: Module 3: Crowdsourcing, GATE Cloud/MIMIR, and Machine Learning
Crowdsourcing annotated social media content with the GATE crowdsourcing plugin
GATE Cloud, deploying your own IE pipeline at scale (how to process 5 millions tweets in 30 mins)
GATE Mimir - how to index and search semantically annotated social media streams
Challenges of opinion mining in social media
Training Machine Learning Models for IE in GATE
Thursday
: Module 4: Advanced IE and Opinion Mining in GATE
Advanced Information Extraction
Useful GATE components (plugins)
Opinion mining components and applications in GATE
On
Friday
, there is a choice of modules (9am - 5pm):
Module 5
: GATE for developers
Basic GATE Embedded
Writing your own plugin
GATE in production - multi-threading, web applications, etc.
Module 6
: GATE Applications
Building your own applications
Examples of some current GATE applications: social media summarisation, visualisation, Linked Open Data for IE, and more
Please note that these two modules are run in parallel, so you can only attend one of them. You must state on the booking form which module you would like to follow on Friday. Note that you will be expected to have some programming experience and knowledge of Java to follow Module 5 on the Friday. No particular expertise is needed for Module 6.
Registration
Registration will be available from early February.
Please fill in this
online registration form
and email it back to
gate-fig@sheffield.ac.uk
. You will then be sent details about payment.
Early registration
Late registration
Student
£275
£325
Academic
£475
£525
Commercial
£975
£1175
The
registration fee
includes registration for all modules, lunches, tea/coffee and course materials.
Venue and accommodation
The course will be held on the main campus of the University of Sheffield.
Further information about the venue and accommodation will be available on the
course wiki page
Further Information
Participants will be required to bring their own laptops with the latest version of GATE installed. If this is a problem for you, please let us know well in advance.
Contact
Please contact us at
gate-fig@sheffield.ac.uk
for any enquiries relating to the training course.
Sponsorship
This event is supported by the
SoBigData
EU Research Project.
Organisation
Chairs: Diana Maynard, Kalina Bontcheva, University of Sheffield
Local organisation: Alice Tucker, University of Sheffield
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