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Ontology-Based Interface Specifications for a NLP Pipeline Architecture

@inproceedings{Buyko2008OntologyBasedIS,
  title={Ontology-Based Interface Specifications for a NLP Pipeline Architecture},
  author={Ekaterina Buyko and C. Chiarcos and Antonio Pareja-Lora},
  booktitle={International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation},
  year={2008}
}
The high level of heterogeneity between linguistic annotations usually complicates the interoperability of processing modules within an NLP pipeline. In this paper, a framework for the interoperation of NLP components, based on a data-driven architecture, is presented. Here, ontologies of linguistic annotation are employed to provide a conceptual basis for the tagset-neutral processing of linguistic annotations. The framework proposed here is based on a set of structured OWL ontologies: a… 
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