NLP,DM – General Architecture for Text Engineering (University of Sheffield) (gate.ac.uk)

I intend to use this platform to build my own text parser (in a product). Some queries:

1. How robust it is? 2. I have written my code in C#, and to migrate it to GATE I have to write all code in GATE Developer from scratch using JAPE. Is there a way to speed up this migration?

Thanks