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  <Title>An Object-Oriented Linguistic Engineering Environment using LFG (Lexical Functionnal Grammar) and CG (Conceptual Graphs)</Title>
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5 Concluding remarks: Sharing the
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    <Paragraph position="0"> tools on a network with CORBA The different tools described in this paper are currently being extended to be CORBA-compatible. CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) (Ben-Natan, 1995), has been defined by the OMG as an interoperability norm for heterogeneous languages (Smalltalk, C++, JAVA) and platforms (UNIX, Macintosh, PC). CORBA defines a common interface definition language (IDL), as well as a set of services (naming service, security, concurrency management...). CORBA objects can be distributed worldwide (for example using Internet) using an ORB (Object Request Broker). Various tools implement this CORBA norm. We have used Distributed Smalltalk (Pare Place Digitalk) to realize the distributed implementation of an analyser. With this system, users can currently make an analysis, see the results of this analysis, the F-structures, see the syntactic rules base... With this kind of architecture, systems necessiting a large amount of ressources can be distributed amongst workstations on a network and/or be used by clients having few ressources. Moreover these ressources can be physically located in any place of a network, allowing thus to distribute the responsibility of their management and maintenance to different persons. With the communication possibilities offered by Internet, it makes it possible to coordinate the cooperative efforts of several teams in the world around a single, coherent, though distributed system. We are continuing our work toward the implementation of a complete distributed multi-agent system, following the CARAMEL architecture (Sabah and Briffault, 1993), (Sabah, 1995), (Sabah, 1997).</Paragraph>
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