@InProceedings{murakami-EtAl:2016:WLSI-OIAF4HLT2016,
  author    = {Murakami, Yohei  and  Nakaguchi, Takao  and  Lin, Donghui  and  Ishida, Toru},
  title     = {An Ontology for Language Service Composability},
  booktitle = {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)},
  month     = {December},
  year      = {2016},
  address   = {Osaka, Japan},
  publisher = {The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee},
  pages     = {61--69},
  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.},
  url       = {http://aclweb.org/anthology/W16-5209}
}