The "Whiteboard" Architecture: a way to integrate heterogeneous   components of NLP systems
  We present a new software architecture for NLP systems made of heterogeneous components, and demonstrate an architectural prototype we have built at ATR in the context of Speech Translation. 
Christian Boitet (GETA, IMAG (UJF & CNRS)) & Mark Seligman (ATR   Interpreting Telecommunications Research Labs)