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  <Title>THE &amp;quot;WHITEBOARD&amp;quot; ARCHITECTURE: A WAY TO INTEGRATE HETEROGENEOUS COMPONENTS OF NLP SYSTEMS</Title>
  <Section position="5" start_page="429" end_page="429" type="concl">
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CONCLUSION
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    <Paragraph position="0"> Although the concept of the whiteboard architecture Ires emerged in the context of rese,-u'ch in Speech Translation, it can be useful in other areas of NLP. It has already been used, in a prelimin,'u'y form, in dialogue-b~sed MT \[3\]: the tasks are distributed between the authoring stations and an MT server, m~d the coordinator maintains in a unique data structure all intermediate stages of processing of all units of translation.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The whiteboard ,architecture might be used with profit in all situations where it is important to integrate new or existing components, e.g. to build generic environments for developing heterogeneous NLP systems. Researchers would thereby gain twice: by getting a clearer view of what they (and others) ,are doing; and by being able to use generic interlace tools provided by the coordinator for debugging and illustrating purposes.</Paragraph>
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