We are pleased to announce that there will be a GATE Summer School, held in Sheffield. If you or your students would be interested in using GATE for text analytics, then we hope you'll find this interesting.

An outline of the programme appears below - to be delivered as a mixture
of talks, demos, and hands-on exercises:

* Introduction to GATE and NLP system development - GATE GUI, JAPE, evaluation,
corpora
* Information extraction in GATE
* Ontologies, ontology learning, and semantic annotation
* Advanced GATE features - machine learning, information retrieval,web-based
collaborative annotation
* GATE Applications and projects: Multimedia,business intelligence, summarisation,
crunching terrabytes, etc.

For further information and registration please see:

http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/fig09