2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/148590This report argues for the provision of a common software infrastructure for NLP systems. Current trends in Language Engineering research are reviewed as motivation for this infrastructure, and relevant recent work discussed. A freely-available system called GATE is described which builds on this work.52 page technical report, LaTeX 2e sourceComputation and Languagetext