Sense Tagging and Language Engineering.

GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering), an architecture to aid in the production and delivery of language engineering systems which signiic-antly reduces development time and ease of reuse is described.

Abstract

. Language engineering is a new, practical, branch of NLP and Computational Linguistics. We describe two language engineering systems: GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering), an architecture to aid in the production and delivery of language engineering systems which significantly reduces development time and ease of reuse. We also describe a sense tagger which we implemented within the GATE architecture, and which achieves high accuracy (93% of all words in text to a broad semantic level). The implementation of the sense tagger was used as a practical task on which to evaluate the usefulness of the GATE architecture and identify its strengths and weaknesses. 1 Introduction Within the last few years a new area has emerged from the fields of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing: Language Engineering. This has been defined in various ways by different authors [2, 11], however the basic principal is that Language Engineering is the discipline or act of engin...