GATE is...
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the Eclipse of Natural Language Engineering,
the Lucene of Information Extraction, a leading toolkit for Text
Mining
- used worldwide by thousands of
scientists,
companies,
teachers and students
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comprised of an architecture, a free open source
framework (or SDK) and graphical development environment
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used for all sorts of language processing tasks, including Information Extraction in many languages
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funded by the EPSRC, BBSRC, AHRC, the EU and commercial users
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100% Java reference implementation of ISO TC37/SC4 and used with
XCES in the ANC
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10 years old in 2005,
used in many research projects and compatible
with
IBM's UIMA
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based on MVC, mobile code, continuous integration, and
test-driven development, with code
hosted on SourceForge
Some projects:
SEKT (EC);
TAO (EC);
NEON (EC);
LarKC (EC);
MC (EC);
MUSING (EC);
AKT;
PrestoSpace;
KWeb;
MMKM;
ETCSL;
MultiFlora;
Service Finder;
more.
A sample of users:
British Telecom;
Imperial College;
Hewlett Packard;
OntoText;
Perseus;
Greenstone;
NCSA; AT&T.
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