Gate Named Entity with ANNIE using IKVM in .net

I am looking for some guidance on using Gate and ANNIE in a .net enviornment. Has anyone converted GATE to a .NET DLL using IKVMC, and had much success running named entity recognition 开发者_StackOverflow社区in .NET/C# using the converted DLL?

Thanks in advance.

I just did what you suggested. I compiled GATE with IKVM and it works perfectly fine. I tested it with GATE 7.0 and IKVM 7.2.4630.5.

You should be aware however that the GATE plugins are run in dynamic mode. This means that parts will be run with the IKVM JIT (instead of being statically compiled). Also GATE has many dependencies so the resulting DLL will be quite big.