A General Architecture for Language Engineering (GATE) - a new approach   to Language Engineering R&D
  This report argues for the provision of a common software infrastructure for NLP systems. Current trends in Language Engineering research are reviewed as motivation for this infrastructure, and relevant recent work discussed. A freely-available system called GATE is described which builds on this work. 
Hamish Cunningham, Robert J. Gaizauskas, Yorick Wilks (Institute for   Language Speech and Hearing (ILASH) / Department of C...