Loading a Document into GATE

There are two ways to do it:

1. In the left navigation frame, right click on Language Resources -> New -> GATE document.

2. Alternatively, use the menu and go to: File ->New Language Resource-> New GATE document

The "Parameters for the new GATE document" window will open. In the window:

• Leave or set preserveOriginalContent=true.
• Click the open-folder button (end of row beginning with sourceUrl).
• Find the directory containing the file that you will annotate.
• Select the file that you want to open.
• Give the file a name ending with your initials. Example: hr37-taw.
• Click OK.

• A gate document with the name that you gave it should show up in the frame on the left side of the GATE window, under Language Resources.

• Double-click on the xml document that you added under Language Resources. The file will show up in the center frame of the GATE window.

• Click on the Annotations and Annotation Sets buttons. This will open up the Annotation frame (middle bottom of the GATE window) and the Annotation Sets frame (right side of the GATE window).

• In the Annotation Sets frame two or three sets of annotations should be listed:
  1. Default annotations
  2. MPQA annotations
  3. Original markup annotations (may or may not be listed)

• If the MPQA annotation set is not listed, type "MPQA" into the text field at the bottom of the Annotation Sets frame and click New.

• GATE should now look much like the image below.

You are now ready to begin annotating the document. If no annotation labels are available when you select text and hover the mouse over the selection, then check that you have set up the correct CREOLE repository

in which the MPQA annotation scheme is defined.