GATE: A Unicode-based Infrastructure Supporting Multilingual Information Extraction

Bontcheva, Dr Kalina and Maynard, Dr Diana and Tablan, Mr Valentin and Cunningham, Dr Hamish (2003) GATE: A Unicode-based Infrastructure Supporting Multilingual Information Extraction. In Proceedings WORKSHOP on Information Extraction for Slavonic and other Central and Eastern European Languages, Borovets, Bulgaria.

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NLP infrastructures with comprehensive multilingual support can substantially decrease the overhead of developing Information Extraction (IE) systems in new languages by offering support for different character encodings, language-independent components, and clean separation between linguistic data and the algorithms that use it. This paper will present GATE -- a Unicode-aware infrastructure that offers extensive support for multilingual Information Extraction with a special emphasis on low-overhead portability between languages. GATE has been used in many research and commercial projects at Sheffield and elsewhere, including Information Extraction in Bulgarian, Romanian, Russian, and many other languages.

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