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GATE, Human Language and Machine Learning gate.ac.uk/ nlp.shef.ac.uk/

GATE, Human Language and Machine Learning http://gate.ac.uk/ http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/ Hamish Cunningham, Valentin Tablan, Kalina Bontcheva, Diana Maynard 9 th July/2003 The Knowledge Economy and Human Language Technology GATE: a General Architecture for Text Engineering

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  1. GATE, Human Language and Machine Learning • http://gate.ac.uk/http://nlp.shef.ac.uk/ • Hamish Cunningham, Valentin Tablan, • Kalina Bontcheva, Diana Maynard • 9th July/2003 • The Knowledge Economy and Human Language Technology • GATE: a General Architecture for Text Engineering • GATE, Information Extraction and Machine Learning

  2. 1. The Knowledge Economy and Human Language • Gartner, December 2002: • taxonomic and hierachical knowledge mapping and indexing will be prevalent in almost all information-rich applications • through 2012 more than 95% of human-to-computer information input will involve textual language • A contradiction: formal knowledge in semantics-based systems vs. ambiguous informal natural language • The challenge: to reconcile these two opposing tendencies 2(30)

  3. Two trends in the early 1990s: NLU: too difficult! Restrict the task and increase the performance Quantitative measurement (MUC – Message Understanding Conference, ACE – Advanced Content Extraction, TREC – Text Retrieval Conference...) means good estimation of accuracy Types of extraction: Identify named entities (domain independent) Persons Dates Numbers Organizations Identify domain-specific events and terms; e.g., if we’re processing football: Relations: which team a player plays for Events: goal, foul, etc Information Extraction (1): from text to structured data 3(30)

  4. MUC-7 tasks NE: Named Entity recognition and typing CO: co-reference resolution TE: Template Elements TR: Template Relations ST: Scenario Templates Example: The shiny red rocket was fired on Tuesday. It is the brainchild of Dr. Big Head. Dr. Head is a staff scientist at We Build Rockets Inc. NE: entities are "rocket", "Tuesday", "Dr. Head" and "We Build Rockets" CO: "it" refers to the rocket; "Dr. Head" and "Dr. Big Head“ are the same TE: the rocket is "shiny red" and Head's "brainchild". TR: Dr. Head works for We Build Rockets Inc. ST: a rocket launching event occurred with the various participants. Information Extraction (2) 4(30)

  5. KEY MNLG: Multilingual Natural Language GenerationOIE: Ontology-aware Information ExtractionAIE: Adaptive IECLIE: Controlled Language IE (M)NLG Semantic Web; Semantic Grid;Semantic Web Services Formal Knowledge(ontologies andinstance bases) HumanLanguage OIE IE and Knowledge: Closing theLanguageLoop (A)IE ControlledLanguage CLIE 5(30)

  6. Populating Ontologies with IE 6(30)

  7. Protégé and Ontology Management 7(30)

  8. IE: the bad news… Domain specificity vs. task complexity: verygeneral simple entities “acceptable” accuracy specificity events and relations complexity domainspecific 8(30)

  9. 2. GATE: Software Architecure for HLT • Software lifecycle in collaborative research • Project Proposal: We love each other. We can work so well together. We can hold workshops on Santorini together. We will solve all the problems of AI that our predecessors were too stupid to. • Analysis and Design: Stop work entirely, for a period of reflection and recuperation following the stress of attending the kick-off meeting in Luxembourg. • Implementation: Each developer partner tries to convince the others that program X that they just happen to have lying around on a dusty disk-drive meets the project objectives exactly and should form the centrepiece of the demonstrator. • Integration and Testing: The lead partner gets desperate and decides to hard-code the results for a small set of examples into the demonstrator, and have a fail-safe crash facility for unknown input ("well, you know, it's still a prototype..."). • Evaluation: Everyone says how nice it is, how it solves all sorts of terribly hard problems, and how if we had another grant we could go on to transform information processing the World over (or at least the European business travel industry). 9(30)

  10. GATE, a General Architecture for Text Engineering • An architectureA macro-level organisational picture for LE software systems. • A frameworkFor programmers, GATE is an object-oriented class library that implements the architecture. • A development environmentFor language engineers, computational linguists et al, GATE is a graphical development environment bundled with a set of tools for doing e.g. Information Extraction. • Some free components... ...and wrappers for other people's components • Tools for: evaluation; visualise/edit; persistence; IR; IE; dialogue; ontologies; etc. • Free software (LGPL). Download at http://gate.ac.uk/download/ 10(30)

  11. Architectural principles • Non-prescriptive, theory neutral (strength and weakness) • Re-use, interoperation, not reimplementation (e.g. diverse XML support, integration of tools like Protégé, Jena and Weka) • (Almost) everything is a component, and component sets are user-extendable • Component-based development • An OO way of chunking software: Java Beans • GATE components: CREOLE = modified Java Beans (Collection of REusable Objects for Language Engineering) • The minimal component = 10 lines of Java, 10 lines of XML, 1 URL. 11(30)

  12. GATE Language Resources • GATE LRs are documents, ontologies, corpora, lexicons, …… • Documents / corpora: • GATE documents loaded from local files or the web... • Diverse document formats: text, html, XML, email, RTF, SGML. • Processing Resources • Algorithmic components knows as PRs – beans with execute methods. • All PRs can handle Unicode data by default. • Clear distinction between code and data (simple repurposing). • 20-30 freebies with GATE • e.g. Named entity recognition; WordNet; Protégé; Ontology; OntoGazetteer; DAML+OIL export; Information Retrieval based on Lucene 12(30)

  13. Visual Resources 13(30)

  14. Performance Evaluation • At document level – annotation diff • At corpus level – corpus benchmark tool – tracking system’s performance over time 14(30)

  15. Regression Test – Corpus Benchmark Tool 15(30)

  16. Information Retrieval Based on the Lucene IR engine 16(30)

  17. Editing Multilingual Data • GATE Unicode Kit (GUK) • Java provides no special support for text input (this may change) • Support for defining additional Input Methods (IMs) • currently 30 IMs for 17 languages • Pluggable in other applications 17(30)

  18. Processing Multilingual Data All the visualisation and editing tools for ML LRs use enhanced Java facilities: 18(30)

  19. GATE team projects: Conceptual indexing: MUMIS: automatic semantic indices for sports video MUSE, cross-genre entitiy finder HSL, Health-and-safety IE ETCSL: collaboration with IOAS Oxford on Sumerian Old Bailey: collaboration with HRI on 17th century court reports Multiflora: plant taxonomy text analysis for biodiversity research e-science Advanced Knowledge Technologies: €12m UK five site collaborative project H-TechSight: knowledge portal for Chemicals Engineers Framework 6: SEKT, PrestoSpace, KnowledgeWeb A representative fraction of GATE users: IBM TJ Watson, US the American National Corpus project, US the Perseus Digital Library project, Tufts University, US Longman Pearson publishing, UK Merck KgAa, Germany Canon Europe, UK Knight Ridder (the second biggest US news publisher) BBN (leading HLT research lab), US SMEs in Sirma AI Ltd., Bulgaria Imperial College, London, the University of Manchester, the University of Karlsruhe, Vassar College, the University of Southern California and a large number of other UK, US and EU Universities UK and EU projects inc. MyGrid, CLEF, dotkom, AMITIES, Cub Reporter, EMILLE, MUSE, Poesia... A bit of a nuisance (users) 19(30)

  20. Uses classification. [Attr1, Attr2, Attr3, … Attrn]  Class Classifies annotations. (Documents can be classified as well using a simple trick.) Annotations of a particular type are selected as instances. Attributes refer to instance annotations. Attributes have a position relative to the instance annotation they refer to. 3. Machine Learning in GATE 20(30)

  21. Attributes can be: Boolean The [lack of] presence of an annotation of a particular type [partially] overlapping the referred instance annotation. Nominal The value of a particular feature of the referred instance annotation. The complete set of acceptable values must be specified a-priori. Numeric The numeric value (converted from String) of a particular feature of the referred instance annotation. Attributes 21(30)

  22. Machine Learning PR in GATE. Has two functioning modes: training application Uses an XML file for configuration: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?> <ML-CONFIG> <DATASET> … </DATASET> <ENGINE>…</ENGINE> <ML-CONFIG> Implementation 22(30)

  23. <DATASET> <INSTANCE-TYPE>Token</INSTANCE-TYPE> <ATTRIBUTE> <NAME>POS_category(0)</NAME> <TYPE>Token</TYPE> <FEATURE>category</FEATURE> <POSITION>0</POSITION> <VALUES> <VALUE>NN</VALUE> <VALUE>NNP</VALUE> <VALUE>NNPS</VALUE> … </VALUES> [<CLASS/>] </ATTRIBUTE> … </DATASET> <DATASET> 23(30)

  24. <ENGINE> <WRAPPER>gate.creole.ml.weka.Wrapper</WRAPPER> <OPTIONS> <CLASSIFIER>weka.classifiers.j48.J48</CLASSIFIER> <CLASSIFIER-OPTIONS>-K 3</CLASSIFIER-OPTIONS> <CONFIDENCE-THRESHOLD>0.85</CONFIDENCE-THRESHOLD> </OPTIONS> </ENGINE> <ENGINE> 24(30)

  25. Attributes Position Instances type: Token 25(30)

  26. Can save a learnt model to an external file for later use. Saves the actual model and the collected dataset. Can export the collected dataset in .arff format. Machine Learning PR 26(30)

  27. Training Prepare training data by enriching the documents with annotation for attributes. (e.g. run Tokeniser, POS tagger, Gazetteer, etc). Run the ML PR in training mode. Export the dataset as .arff and perform experiments using the WEKA interface in order to find the best attribute set / algorithm / algorithm options. Update the configuration file accordingly. Run the ML PR again to collect the actual data. [ Save the learnt model. ] Standard Use Scenario Application • Prepare data by enriching the documents with annotation for attributes. (e.g. run Tokeniser, POS tagger, Gazetteer, etc). • [ Load the previously saved model. ] • Run the ML PR in application mode. • [ Save the learnt model. ] 27(30)

  28. Learn POS category from POS context. An Example 28(30)

  29. The MLEngine Interface Method Summary void addTrainingInstance(List attributes) Adds a new training instance to the dataset.  Object classifyInstance(List attributes) Classifies a new instance.  void init() This method will be called after an engine is created and has its dataset and options set.  void setDatasetDefinition(DatasetDefintion definition) Sets the definition for the dataset used.  void setOptions(org.jdom.Element options) Sets the options from an XML JDom element. void setOwnerPR(ProcessingResource pr) Registers the PR using the engine with the engine.  Using Other ML Libraries 29(30)

  30. Conclusion • GATE is: • Addressing the need for scalable, reusable, and portable HLT solutions • Supporting large data, in multiple media, languages, formats, and locations • Lowering the cost of creation of new language processing components • Promoting quantitative evaluation metrics via tools and a level playing field • Promoting experimental repeatability by developing and supporting free software • Perhaps it may become: • A vehicle for the spread of collaborative experiments in ML and HLT? 30(30)

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