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 MV