  For its internal needs as well as for commercial purposes, CDC Group has
produced several NLP-based on-line contentware applications for years. The
development process of such applications is subject to numerous constraints
such as quality of service, integration of new advances in NLP, direct
reactions from users, continuous versioning, short delivery deadlines and cost
control. Following this industrial and commercial experience, malleability of
the applications, their openness towards foreign components, efficiency of
applications and their ease of exploitation have appeared to be key points. In
this paper, we describe TalLab, a powerful architecture for on-line contentware
which fulfils these requirements.
