Open Language Processing and Pictogram API

This repository contains the source code for a RESTful API offering language processing services related to pictogram annotation. It is to be used in conjunction with pictogram databases such as ARASAAC or Mulberry.

Usage

Cloning

In a console, on linux:

git clone https://github.com/InteraactionGroup/olpapi/
cd olpapi

Dependencies

This API was built to run on NodeJS. Install the dependencies with the npm tool:

npm install

Running

To start the API's server script:

node index.js

Using with ARASAAC / Mulberry

This repository includes a script which you can use to use this API with ARASAAC or Mulberry

ARASAAC

ARASAAC has around 13000 pictograms in PNG format, weighting around 630MB.

git clone https://github.com/InteraactionGroup/olpapi-arasaac/ pictograms/arasaac

Mulberry

Mulberry has around 3500 pictograms in SVG format, weighting around 15MB.

git clone https://github.com/InteraactionGroup/olpapi-mulberry/ pictograms/mulberry

References

This work is derived from the results of other research:

Word variations were extracted from Dbnary.
Sense keys and their corresponding words were extracted from The Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet.
Semantically tagged glosses were obtained from Princeton University's WordNet
This API was developped for use with pictograms from Mulberry Symbols and ARASAAC.

Noars/olpapi