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<Paper uid="C94-1070">
  <Title>THE &amp;quot;WHITEBOARD&amp;quot; ARCHITECTURE: A WAY TO INTEGRATE HETEROGENEOUS COMPONENTS OF NLP SYSTEMS</Title>
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ABSTRACT
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We present a new softw,'u'e architecture for NLP systems made of heterogeneous components, and demonstrate an architectural prototype we have built at ATR iu the context of Speech Translation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> KEYWORDS: Distributed NLP systems, Software architectures, Whiteboard.</Paragraph>
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