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SplineAPI: A REST API for NLP Services

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Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2015)

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Abstract

Modern applications often use Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques and algorithms to provide sets of rich features. Researchers, who come up with these algorithms, often implement them for case studies, evaluation or as proof of concepts. These implementations are, in most cases, freely available for download and use.

Nevertheless, these implementations do not comprise final software packages, with extensive installation instructions and detailed usage guides. Most lack a proper installation mechanism and library dependency tracking. The programming interfaces are, usually, limited to their usage through command line, or with just a few programming languages support.

To overcome these shortcomings, this work aims to develop a new web platform to make available a set of common operations to third party applications that can be used to quickly access NLP based processes. Of course this platform still relies on the same tools mentioned before, as a base support to specific requests. Nevertheless, the end user will not need to install and learn their specific Application Programming Interfaces (API). For this to be possible, the architectural solution is to implement a RESTful API that hides all the tool details in a simple API that is common or, at least, coherent, across the different tools.

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Notes

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    A XPath like language for JSON, available from: http://goessner.net/articles/JsonPath/ (Last visited: 15-04-2015).

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    A very complete and expresssive query language for JSON, available from: http://www.jsoniq.org/ (Last visited: 15-04-2015).

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Acknowledgements

This work has been partly supported by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia within the Project Scope UID/CEC/00319/2013.

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  1. Centro Algoritmi, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Nuno Vieira, Alberto Simões & Nuno Ramos Carvalho

  2. Centro de Estudos HumanĂ­sticos, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Alberto Simões

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  2. Universidade do Porto - DCC, Porto, Portugal

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  3. Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

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Vieira, N., Simões, A., Carvalho, N.R. (2015). SplineAPI: A REST API for NLP Services. In: Sierra-Rodríguez, JL., Leal, JP., Simões, A. (eds) Languages, Applications and Technologies. SLATE 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 563. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27653-3_20

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