Abstract
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 possible alternatives to model innately bilingual/multilingual lexicons like EDR with LMF, and proposes possible revisions to Wordnet-LMF.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010 |
Publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
Pages | 507-513 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 2951740867, 9782951740860 |
Publication status | Published - 2010 Jan 1 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010 - Valletta, Malta Duration: 2010 May 17 → 2010 May 23 |
Other
Other | 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010 |
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Country | Malta |
City | Valletta |
Period | 10/5/17 → 10/5/23 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education
- Library and Information Sciences
- Linguistics and Language
- Language and Linguistics