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EPSRC Reference: GR/M31699/01
Title: REVISION OF GATE: SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR LANGUAGE PROCESSING R&D
Principal Investigator: Wilks, Professor Y
Other Investigators:
Gaizauskas, Professor R
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Project Partners:
BG GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) Pre Nexus Migration
University of New Mexico
Department: Computer Science
Organisation: University of Sheffield
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 April 1999 Ends: 31 March 2002 Value (£): 207,098
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Human Communication in ICT
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No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Natural Language Processing is developing rapidly both as a technology and within applications, both being driven by the WWW. These developments increase the need for large-scale, reliable and efficient software engineering in the NLP systems; increasing collaborative multi-site research and development, and an increased focus on evaluation of the technology.In the GATE project (General Architecture for Text Engineering) we have developed (1) an architecture, development and delivery environment for NLP systems, and (2) an IE system that competes successfully with the best in the world. The architecture is now in use for many projects on 4 continents.This project - GATE 2 - will extend (1) with distributed processing and document management across Inter/Intranets, further reducing integration and experimentation overheads; and providing support for Information Retrieval, machine Translation, dialogue and multimedia document processing, and experimentation with Speech Processing; as well as provision of a new distribution mechanism for lexical resources. The architecture, as a whole, will give the sort of foundation in the UK that DARPA-related US NLP projects enoy, and will be enable a range of experimental NLP advances, in Sheffield and within a growing user community, at low cost.
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