LMF-aware Web services for accessing semantic lexicons

  • Authors:
  • Yoshihiko Hayashi;Bora Savas;Monica Monachini;Claudia Soria;Nicoletta Calzolari

  • Affiliations:
  • Osaka University, Osaka, Japan;Osaka University, Osaka, Japan;CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy;CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy;CNR-ILC, Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Language Resources and Evaluation
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

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.