An LMF-based Web Service for Accessing WordNet-type Semantic Lexicons

This paper describes a Web service for accessing WordNet-type semantic lexicons. The central idea behind the service design is: given a query, the primary functionality of lexicon access is to present a partial lexicon by extracting the relevant part of the target lexicon. Based on this idea, we implemented the system as a RESTful Web service whose input query is specified by the access URI and whose output is presented in a standardized XML data format. LMF, an ISO standard for modeling lexicons, plays the most prominent role: the access URI pattern basically reflects the lexicon structure as defined by LMF; the access results are rendered based on Wordnet-LMF, which is a version of LMF XML-serialization. The Web service currently provides accesses to Princeton WordNet, Japanese WordNet, as well as the EDR Electronic Dictionary as a trial. To accommodate the EDR dictionary within the same framework, we modeled it also as a WordNet-type semantic lexicon. This paper thus argues possibl...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Savas Ali Bora, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Nicoletta Calzolari
• Keywords: Access Uri, Education, LREC 2010, Web Service, Wordnet-type Semantic Lexicon