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  <Title>TEXT UNDERSTANDING WITH MULTIPLE KNOWLEDGE SOURCES: AN EXPERIMENT IN DISTRIBUTED PARSING</Title>
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5. CONCLUSIONS
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In the paper we have presented a novel approach to text understanding which is supported by an experimental parser based on a distributed architecture. The originality of this approach consists in utilizing a shared memory and a centralized control for managing a distributed processing environment. This allows implementation of a very flexible behavior, resulting from the dynamic interaction between a supervisor (the Communication Manager), which elaborates heuristic strategies involving several knowledge sources, and a set of independent specialists which individually contribute to the overall problem solving process. The parser works in the domain of computer science literature on operating system and has been implemented in a prototype version in Franz-LISP on a SUN 2 workstation.</Paragraph>
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