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#GATE ModularPipelines Plugin

The GATE Modular Pipelines Plugin supports two important aspects of developing GATE pipelines, especially more complex pipelines:

• Support modular development, where building blocks can be developed independently and combined to increasingly larger pipelines.
• Support parametrisation of pipelines through config files. Rather than having to update runtime parameters this allows to control how exactly the PRs in a pipeline work from outside the pipeline.

Modularization

This works by representing each contained pipeline as a Processing Resource (Pipline PR) which refers to a a pipeline file. Thus a nested pipeline gets loaded into the containing pipeline via the Pipline PR and the nested pipeline can in turn contain Pipline PRs that may load still further nested pipelines.

Parametrization

• The Parametrized Corpus Controller is a modified version of a Conditional Corpus Controller and it is associated with a configuration file that will be used to change runtime parameters of its PRs, or set document features. The plugin adds a menu entry to the GUI to change an existing Conditional Corpus Controller to a Parametrized Corpus Controller. In addition, the settings from the config file can be overridden by system property settings.

You can find more information in the following Wiki pages:

• Pipeline PR: The "Pipeline" processing resource allows including sub-pipelines getting re-presented as processing resources in a main pipeline and allows setting run-time parameters and document features from a config file.
• Parametrized Corpus Controller: A conditional corpus controller that can be configured from a config file.
• Configuration File documents the format of the config file and the format of the system properties for configuring a Parametrized Corpus Controller
• Downloads: https://github.com/johann-petrak/gateplugin-modularpipelines/releases