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LMF-aware Web services for accessing semantic lexicons

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This paper demonstrates that Wordnet-LMF, a version of ISO LMF, allows us to effectively design and implement Web services for accessing WordNet-type semantic lexicons that conform to the REST Web service architecture. The implemented prototype service currently provides access to native wordnets as well as to a bilingual concept dictionary. This paper thus describes slight revisions that were made to the Wordnet-LMF specifications to model and accommodate a non-wordnet-native bilingual concept dictionary.

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  1. http://xmlgroup.iit.cnr.it/kyoto/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=196&Itemid=126.

  2. http://duelme.inl.nl/.

  3. This service and associated issues were also discussed at the 3rd W3C MultilingualWeb Workshop held in Limerick, Ireland. All the relevant materials can be retrieved from: http://www.multilingualweb.eu/documents/limerick-workshop/limerick-program.

  4. https://www.djangoproject.com/.

  5. Adopted from http://xmlgroup.iit.cnr.it/kyoto/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=143&Itemid=129.

  6. RFC3986 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt) states that a URI is organized as scheme://authority/path?query#fragment .

    Thus, the path component of the URI in this example is pwn/LexicalEntry/Lemma/writtenForm/bank , while the query component is partOfSpeech=n&get_synset_by_index=2 .

  7. This figure shows a view on the Firefox web browser, where the minus sign “−” before the tag signifies that the elements can be folded, while the plus sign “+” indicates that the associated element is currently folded but can be unfolded by clicking it.

  8. Note that we do not consider Japanese WordNet to be an innately bilingual lexicon; it also maintains the same structure by assigning the same id to a Japanese synset as that of the corresponding Princeton WordNet synset. Thus, Japanese WordNet can be seen as a translation of Princeton WordNet, at least for the moment.

  9. Since the directives shown in Table 1 are not specified in the URI patterns, a human designer has to help to create the querying form.

  10. An RDF endpoint based on the RDF representation of PWN proposed in (van Assem et al. 2006) has been opened to the public at: http://api.talis.com/stores/wordnet.

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This work was partly supported by the Strategic Information and Communications R&D Promotion Programme (SCOPE) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications of Japan.

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    Yoshihiko Hayashi & Bora Savas

  2. CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy

    Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria & Nicoletta Calzolari

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Hayashi, Y., Savas, B., Monachini, M. et al. LMF-aware Web services for accessing semantic lexicons. Lang Resources & Evaluation 46, 253–264 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-012-9181-4

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