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Developing Morpho-SLaWS: An API for the Morphosyntactic Annotation of the Serbian Language

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Serbian Lexical Web Service (SLaWS) is a resource-oriented web service designed to offer multiple functionalities—including morphosyntactic, lexicographic, and canonical text services—to create the backbone of a digital humanities infrastructure for the Serbian language. In this paper, we describe a key component of this service called Morpho-SLaWS, the atomic morphosyntactic component of the service infrastructure. The goal of Morpho-SLaWs is to offer a reliable, programmatic way of extracting morphosyntactic information about word forms using a revised version of the MULTEXT-East specification. As a service-oriented lexical tool, Morpho-SLaWS can be deployed in a variety of contexts and combined with other linguistic and DH tools.

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  • API design
  • Service architecture
  • Morphological lexicon
  • Serbian language
  • Digital humanities

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    At the same time, it is important to keep in mind that Serbian is not the only language suffering from the predicament of underdeveloped resources. “It is estimated that for most European languages, even the basic resources are not yet available.” (Váradi et al. 2008).

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    http://www.folgerdigitaltexts.org/api.

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    http://correspsearch.bbaw.de/index.xql?id=api.

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    http://litterra.info/.

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    http://bukvik.litterra.info/.

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Tasovac, T., Rudan, S., Rudan, S. (2015). Developing Morpho-SLaWS: An API for the Morphosyntactic Annotation of the Serbian Language. In: Mahlow, C., Piotrowski, M. (eds) Systems and Frameworks for Computational Morphology. SFCM 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 537. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23980-4_9

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