<s>
General	B-Language
Architecture	I-Language
for	I-Language
Text	I-Language
Engineering	I-Language
or	O
GATE	O
is	O
a	O
Java	B-Language
suite	O
of	O
tools	O
originally	O
developed	O
at	O
the	O
University	O
of	O
Sheffield	O
beginning	O
in	O
1995	O
and	O
now	O
used	O
worldwide	O
by	O
a	O
wide	O
community	O
of	O
scientists	O
,	O
companies	O
,	O
teachers	O
and	O
students	O
for	O
many	O
natural	B-Language
language	I-Language
processing	I-Language
tasks	O
,	O
including	O
information	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
in	O
many	O
languages	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
May	O
28	O
,	O
2011	O
,	O
881	O
people	O
are	O
on	O
the	O
gate-users	O
mailing	O
list	O
at	O
SourceForge.net,	O
and	O
111,932	O
downloads	O
from	O
SourceForge	B-Application
are	O
recorded	O
since	O
the	O
project	O
moved	O
to	O
SourceForge	B-Application
in	O
2005	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
paper	O
"	O
GATE	O
:	O
A	O
framework	O
and	O
graphical	O
development	O
environment	O
for	O
robust	O
NLP	B-Language
tools	O
and	O
applications	O
"	O
has	O
received	O
over	O
2000	O
citations	O
since	O
publication	O
(	O
according	O
to	O
Google	B-Application
Scholar	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Books	O
covering	O
the	O
use	O
of	O
GATE	O
,	O
in	O
addition	O
to	O
the	O
GATE	O
User	O
Guide	O
,	O
include	O
"	O
Building	O
Search	O
Applications	O
:	O
Lucene	B-Language
,	O
LingPipe	O
,	O
and	O
Gate	O
"	O
,	O
by	O
Manu	O
Konchady	O
,	O
and	O
"	O
Introduction	O
to	O
Linguistic	O
Annotation	O
and	O
Text	B-Algorithm
Analytics	I-Algorithm
"	O
,	O
by	O
Graham	O
Wilcock	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
GATE	O
includes	O
an	O
information	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
system	O
called	O
ANNIE	O
(	O
A	O
Nearly-New	O
Information	B-General_Concept
Extraction	I-General_Concept
System	O
)	O
which	O
is	O
a	O
set	O
of	O
modules	O
comprising	O
a	O
tokenizer	B-Application
,	O
a	O
gazetteer	O
,	O
a	O
sentence	O
splitter	O
,	O
a	O
part	O
of	O
speech	O
tagger	O
,	O
a	O
named	B-General_Concept
entities	I-General_Concept
transducer	O
and	O
a	O
coreference	O
tagger	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
ANNIE	O
can	O
be	O
used	O
as-is	O
to	O
provide	O
basic	O
information	B-General_Concept
extraction	I-General_Concept
functionality	O
,	O
or	O
provide	O
a	O
starting	O
point	O
for	O
more	O
specific	O
tasks	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Plugins	O
are	O
included	O
for	O
machine	O
learning	O
with	O
Weka	B-Language
,	O
RASP	O
,	O
MAXENT	O
,	O
SVM	O
Light	O
,	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
a	O
LIBSVM	B-Language
integration	O
and	O
an	O
in-house	O
perceptron	B-Algorithm
implementation	O
,	O
for	O
managing	O
ontologies	O
like	O
WordNet	B-General_Concept
,	O
for	O
querying	O
search	B-Application
engines	I-Application
like	O
Google	B-Application
or	O
Yahoo	B-Application
,	O
for	O
part	O
of	O
speech	O
tagging	O
with	O
Brill	B-General_Concept
or	O
TreeTagger	O
,	O
and	O
many	O
more	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
tweets	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
GATE	O
accepts	O
input	O
in	O
various	O
formats	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
TXT	B-General_Concept
,	O
HTML	B-Language
,	O
XML	B-Protocol
,	O
Doc	B-Operating_System
,	O
PDF	B-Application
documents	I-Application
,	O
and	O
Java	B-Application
Serial	I-Application
,	O
PostgreSQL	B-Application
,	O
Lucene	B-Language
,	O
Oracle	B-General_Concept
Databases	I-General_Concept
with	O
help	O
of	O
RDBMS	O
storage	O
over	O
JDBC	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
JAPE	B-General_Concept
transducers	O
are	O
used	O
within	O
GATE	O
to	O
manipulate	O
annotations	O
on	O
text	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
pink	O
are	O
hyperlink	O
annotations	O
from	O
an	O
HTML	B-Language
file	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
GATE	O
Mimir	O
provides	O
support	O
for	O
indexing	O
and	O
searching	O
the	O
linguistic	O
and	O
semantic	O
information	O
generated	O
by	O
such	O
applications	O
and	O
allows	O
for	O
querying	O
the	O
information	O
using	O
arbitrary	O
combinations	O
of	O
text	O
,	O
structural	O
information	O
,	O
and	O
SPARQL	B-Language
.	O
</s>
