An Ontology for Language Service Composability

Yohei Murakami, Takao Nakaguchi, Donghui Lin, Toru Ishida


Abstract
Fragmentation and recombination is a key to create customized language environments for supporting various intercultural activities. Fragmentation provides various language resource components for the customized language environments and recombination builds each language environment according to user’s request by combining these components. To realize this fragmentation and recombination process, existing language resources (both data and programs) should be shared as language services and combined beyond mismatch of their service interfaces. To address this issue, standardization is inevitable: standardized interfaces are necessary for language services as well as data format required for language resources. Therefore, we have constructed a hierarchy of language services based on inheritance of service interfaces, which is called language service ontology. This ontology allows users to create a new customized language service that is compatible with existing ones. Moreover, we have developed a dynamic service binding technology that instantiates various executable customized services from an abstract workflow according to user’s request. By using the ontology and service binding together, users can bind the instantiated language service to another abstract workflow for a new customized one.
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W16-5209
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Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Worldwide Language Service Infrastructure and Second Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for Human Language Technologies (WLSI/OIAF4HLT2016)
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Yohei Murakami, Donghui Lin, Nancy Ide, James Pustejovsky
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OIAF4HLT
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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61–69
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Yohei Murakami, Takao Nakaguchi, Donghui Lin, and Toru Ishida. 2016. An Ontology for Language Service Composability. In Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Worldwide Language Service Infrastructure and Second Workshop on Open Infrastructures and Analysis Frameworks for Human Language Technologies (WLSI/OIAF4HLT2016), pages 61–69, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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