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  <Title>Using GATE as an Environment for Teaching NLP</Title>
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7 Conclusions
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper we have outlined the GATE system and its key features that make it an effective tool for teaching NLP and CL. The main advantage is that GATE is a framework and a graphical development environment which is suitable both for research and teaching, thus making it easier to connect the two, e.g., allow a student to carry out a final-year project which contributes to novel research, carried out by their lecturers. The development environment comes with a comprehensive set of tools, which cover the entire application development cycle. It can be used to provide students with hands-on experience in a wide variety of tasks. Universities willing to use GATE as a teaching tool will benefit from the comprehensive documentation, several tutorials, and online demonstrations.</Paragraph>
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