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Much progress has been made in the provision of reusable data resources for Natural Language Engineering, such as grammars, lexicons, thesauruscs. Although a number of projects have addressed the provision of reusable algorithmic resources (or 'tools'), takeup of these resources has been relatively slow. This paper describes GATE, a General Architecture for Text Engineering, which is a freely-available system designed to help alleviate the problem.
Cunningham et al. (1997) studied this question.