Introducing Kosh, a Framework for Creating and Maintaining APIs for Lexical Data

• Francisco Mondaca ^[1] ; Philip Schildkamp ^[1] ; Felix Rau ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Cologne

     University of Cologne

     Kreisfreie Stadt Köln, Alemania

     
• Localización: Electronic lexicography in the 21st century. Proceedings of the eLex 2019 conference. 1-3 October 2019, Sintra, Portugal / Iztok Kosem (ed. lit.), Tanara Zingano Kuhn (ed. lit.), Margarita Correia (ed. lit.), José Pedro Ferreira (ed. lit.), Maarten Jansen (ed. lit.), Isabel Pereira (ed. lit.), Jelena Kallas (ed. lit.), Miloš Jakubíček (ed. lit.), Simon Krek (ed. lit.), Carole Tiberius (ed. lit.), 2019, págs. 907-921
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  • In recent years, the use of application programming interfaces (APIs) throughout the Internet has increased significantly. The main reason for this growth is the multiplicity of scenarios where APIs can be employed. In the case of APIs for lexical data, their use varies from applications for mobile devices, desktop applications to natural language processing (NLP) applications, among others. While some publishers offer their data via APIs, for most small or medium size publishers implementing and providing an API is still an obstacle due to the costs and technical expertise required for their development and maintenance. Against this background, we have developed Kosh, an open-source framework for creating and maintaining APIs for lexical data. Kosh has been conceived to minimize the technical expertise required for its use, while offering generic, flexible and efficient data management. In this article, we present the methodology employed in Kosh’s development and describe its architecture and functionality.