GATE Python Plugin

This plugin provides a processing resource, PythonPr which allows the editing and running of python code for processing GATE documents. The Python API for processing documents is the Python gatenlp package.

The plugin provides its own copy of a specific version of the gatenlp package which is used by default, but it is possible to instead use whatever version of the gatenlp package is installed on the system.

Using the Python Plugin

Requires GATE 8.6.1 or later
In the Plugin manager, locate the Python plugin and load it
Alternately, if you need a different version, in the plugin manager, click the “+” button and enter the Maven coordinates
- uk.ac.gate.plugins
- python
- (the version you need)

Installing / Setting up Python

Before the plugin can be used Python must be installed:

Python version 3.6 or later (3.7 or later recommended) must be installed
The python package sortedcontainers must be installed
Detailed installation instructions

The plugin should be compatible with GATE 8.5 or later and should run on Windows, MacOS and Linux-like operating systems.

Reporting problems

If you encounter problems please:

first check if your problem is described in the Frequent Problems list
check github issue tracker
- also check if the problem is in the list of closed issues
- please give as much detail as possible about your OS, GATE version, plugin version, Java version etc.
- please use the issue tracker only to report bugs, other problems and feature requests, for questions about how to use the plugin or other general questions use the GATE mailing list:
for more general questions the GATE mailing list
- please mention “Python plugin” in the subject
- please give as much detail as possible about your OS, GATE version, plugin version, Java version etc.

Please give as much details as possible about your operating system, GATE version, Java version, Python version and whatever else might be relevant.

Plugin components and help topics

Main topics:

Detailed installation instructions
Changes by version
PythonPr: Processing Resource to process documents with Python, using the gatenlp package.
Pipeline python-spacy: a ready made application that creates annotations for a document from the result of running Python spaCy on the text.
Pipeline python-stanford-stanza: a ready made application that runs Stanford Stanza and creates annotations from the result.
Python Editor
Command Line Debugging of Python Scripts: how to debug the scripts outside of GATE from the command line
Frequent Problems: if you encounter problems, please check here first!
JavaDoc: API documentation