GATE 2.0

  1. Find gate.bat and open it in your favorite text editor. The likely location for the gate.bat file is  C:\Program Files\gate\bin. The path could also be like this: C:\Program Files\GATE-2.0\bin .

  2. Go to the last line of the file. It should look like this:
    start "GATE" "%JAVA%" -Xmx200m -Djava.ext.dirs="%EXTDIR%" -classpath %CLASSPATH% gate.Main %FLAGS% %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9
  3. Add:
    -d http://www.cs.pitt.edu/mpqa/opinion-annotations/gate-annotation-new after gate.Main and before %FLAGS%.

  4. The resulting line should look like this:

    start "GATE" "%JAVA%" -Xmx200m -Djava.ext.dirs="%EXTDIR%"
    -classpath %CLASSPATH% gate.Main -d http://www.cs.pitt.edu/mpqa/
    opinion-annotations/gate-annotation-new %FLAGS% %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

  5. Save gate.bat. If you happened to use something like Word to edit the file, make sure that you save gate.bat as TEXT ONLY!
  6. If you've run GATE before and experimented with loading xml-schemas, you may also want to delete your gate.session file.


J. Ruppenhofer