GATE is...

• the Eclipse of Natural Language Engineering, the Lucene of Information Extraction, the leading toolkit for Text Mining
• used worldwide by thousands of scientists, companies, teachers and students
• comprised of an architecture, a free open source framework (or SDK) and graphical development environment
• used for all sorts of language processing tasks, including Information Extraction in many languages
• funded by the EPSRC, BBSRC, AHRC, the EU and commercial users
• 100% Java reference implementation of ISO TC37/SC4 and used with XCES in the ANC
• 10 years old in 2005, used in many research projects and under integration with IBM's UIMA
• based on MVC, mobile code, continuous integration, and test-driven development, with code hosted on SourceForge