Abstract
In the context of the Linguistic Applications (LAPPS) Grid project, we have undertaken the definition of a Web Service Exchange Vocabulary (WS-EV) specifying a terminology for a core of linguistic objects and properties exchanged among NLP tools that consume and produce linguistically annotated data. The goal is not to define a new set of terms, but rather to provide a single web location where terms relevant for exchange among NLP tools are defined and provide a “sameAs” link to all known web-based definitions that correspond to them. The WS-EV is intended to be used by a federation of six grids currently being formed but is usable by any web service platform.
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See, for example, proceedings of the recent LREC workshop on “Language Technology Service Platforms: Synergies, Standards, Sharing” (http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ltsp2014/).
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See [1] for a description of how licensing issues are handled in the LAPPS Grid.
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Within UIMA, the output of tools conforming to different type systems may themselves require conversion in order to be used together.
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Figure 6 shows a pipeline in which both GATE and UIMA services are called; GATE-to-GATE and UIMA-to-UIMA communication does not use the WS-EV, but it is used for communication between GATE and UIMA services, as well as other services.
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We follow the terminology used in RDF/OWL and JSON-LD: the term “objects” (in RDF, nodes in the Semantic Web graph) refers to common linguistic labels or types, and “properties” denote what are often referred to as “features” or “attributes” of an object (in RDF, these are labels of edges between object nodes). We emphasize that our assignment of linguistic labels as objects and properties, while principled to the extent possible, is otherwise arbitrary and may therefore differ from existing type systems and schemas. This does not, however, impede mapping to object and properties in the WS-EV.
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For a full description of LIF, see Verhagen, et al., “The LAPPS Interchange Format”, elsewhere in this volume.
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This work was supported by National Science Foundation grants NSF-ACI 1147944 and NSF-ACI 1147912.
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Ide, N., Suderman, K., Verhagen, M., Pustejovsky, J. (2016). The Language Application Grid Web Service Exchange Vocabulary. In: Murakami, Y., Lin, D. (eds) Worldwide Language Service Infrastructure. WLSI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9442. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31468-6_2
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