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Cooperative Philology on the Way to Web Services: The Case of the CoPhiWordNet Platform

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In this paper we present ongoing research carried out at the Institute for Computational Linguistics “A. Zampolli” (ILC) in Pisa. The institute has been active since many years in the field of Digital Humanities providing resources, tools and solutions to address issues of the to digital humanists. Starting from those previous initiatives, we show how to re-engineer them as Web Services in order to make connections between lexicons, semantic resources and a fine grained text management. Linked Open Data is chosen as the paradigm used to link the different resources as well as the modality of data presentation.

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  1. 1.

    http://www.cophilab.eu/CoPhiLabPortal.

  2. 2.

    Musisque Deoque Project, http://mqdq.it

    Open Philology Project, http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/open-philology-project

    Perseus Project, http://perseus.tufts.edu

    Alpheios Project, http://alpheios.net.

  3. 3.

    For example bottom-up and top-down strategies, pattern programming, modularity, maintainability, performance, atomicity, strong user requirements ...

  4. 4.

    http://www.w3.org/TR/ws-arch/.

  5. 5.

    http://www.tei-c.org.

  6. 6.

    http://lemon-model.net/.

  7. 7.

    http://www.poetiditalia.it.

  8. 8.

    http://nlp.perseus.tufts.edu/syntax/treebank.

  9. 9.

    http://www.memoratapoetis.it.

  10. 10.

    http://clarin.eu.

  11. 11.

    http://dariah.eu/.

  12. 12.

    http://www.interedition.eu/.

  13. 13.

    http://www.meta-share.eu/.

  14. 14.

    Co-funded by the \(7^{th}\) Framework Programme of the European Commission through the grant agreement no. 249119.

  15. 15.

    Abstract Data Types are values (data type) and operations (on them) without specifying how the data type is implemented (encapsulation) [23, 39]. Designing reusable Abstract Data Types is strategic since they generalize the domain requirements in term of behavior and separation between implementation and interface.

  16. 16.

    We strongly apply software design techniques such as analysis pattern, architectural pattern, design pattern ...

  17. 17.

    GUI beta-version at http://www.languagelibrary.eu/new_ewnui.

  18. 18.

    http://www.perseids.org/.

  19. 19.

    Where g stands for Greek word, l for Latin and s is the id of the English synset which bridges g into l.

  20. 20.

    http://www.lexinfo.net/ontology/2.0/lexinfo.owl.

  21. 21.

    Where the ontology provides the semantics for the lexical entries in the lexicon.

  22. 22.

    So far, only Italian WordNet (IWN) is available in RDF - http://www.languagelibrary.eu/owl/italWordNet15/download/italWordNet15.tar.gz-, but, given the fact that each WordNet (WN) in CoPhiWordNet has the same structure as PWN their conversion is straightforward.

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The present research has been partially supported by the Italian National Project Memorata Poetis (PRIN-2010/2011-2010NK2ACB). The work is part of a wider research panorama that is focused on models, resources, instruments and infrastructures for the Digital Humanities, namely CLARIN- and DARIAH-ERIC. The authors would also like to thank Bridget Almas, Harry Diakoff (Alpheios Project) and Gregory Crane (Perseus Project and Open Philology Project) who provided insight and expertise that greatly inspired important aspects of the research.

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Del Gratta, R., Boschetti, F., Del Grosso, A., Khan, F., Monachini, M. (2016). Cooperative Philology on the Way to Web Services: The Case of the CoPhiWordNet Platform. In: Murakami, Y., Lin, D. (eds) Worldwide Language Service Infrastructure. WLSI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9442. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31468-6_13

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