LMF-aware Web services for accessing semantic lexicons

Yoshihiko Hayashi, Savas Ali Bora, Monica Monachini, Claudia Soria, Nicoletta Calzolari

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.