The GATE Process

The GATE Process describes the steps you need to take if you want to create predictable and sustainable language processing capabilities in your organisation. The process is supported by software (most notably GATE Teamware), but it is not primarily based on tools. The process encapsulates expert knowledge and the use of that knowledge to build, educate and direct multi-role teams whose work involves the complex workflows (or business processes) necessary to do text analysis (etc.) in a cost-effective, sustainable and accurate manner.

The process covers four areas:

• data integration and domain modelling (with Ontotext)
• content enrichment (via information extraction or semantic annotation)
• search, navigation and presentation (with Ontotext and Matrixware)
• systems integration (with Matrixware)

The process is specified as a set of UML activity diagrams which are supported by business process management tooling, GATE Teamware, GATE Developer and GATE embedded. Click on the boxes in the diagram to the right to see more details.

Components of the GATE Process