GATE, a General Architecture for Text Engineering
Computers and the HumanitiesPublished 1 May 2002
Hamish Cunningham
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GATE lies at the intersection of human language computation and software engineering, and constitutes aninfrastructural system supporting research and development of languageprocessing software.
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This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of GATE, a General Architecture for Text Engineering.GATE lies at the intersection of human language computation and software engineering, and constitutes aninfrastructural system supporting research and development of languageprocessing software.
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