Re: [unrev-II] GATE:General Architecture for Text Engineering

From: Jack Park (jackpark@thinkalong.com)
Date: Sat Jul 21 2001 - 14:36:39 PDT

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    This is a 16 meg download, GPL, and expands to around 60 megs. Nothing
    included that tells how to use it. Now, off to the web to find some more
    information.

    Cheers
    Jack

    At 06:57 PM 7/21/2001 +0100, you wrote:
    >http://gate.ac.uk/
    >
    >from
    >http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~hamish/GateIntro.html
    >
    >"If you're a professional mathematician, you probably regard a tool like
    >SPSS or Mathematica as necessary infrastructure for your work. If you're a
    >computational linguist or a language engineer, the chances are that large
    >parts of your work have no such infrastructural support, and attempts over
    >the last decade to develop one have not been very successful. GATE,
    >developed over the last three years at the University of Sheffield, aims to
    >fill this gap.
    >What does infrastructure mean for natural language processing (NLP)? What
    >sorts of tasks should be delegated to a general tool, and which should be
    >left to individual projects? GATE does three things:
    >
    >manages textual data storage and exchange;
    >allows easy visualisation of textual data structures;
    >provides plug-in modularity of text processing components.
    >
    >Based on the collective experiences of a sizeable user base accross the EU
    >and elsewhere, the system can claim to be the Mathematica of NLP for certain
    >sections of the field. Given further development, we hope that it can take
    >this role for a wide variety of tasks. "

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