Linguistic Knowledge Services - Developing Web Services in Language Technology

In this paper we describe the application of web service standards in the language technology domain. Starting from a short review of web application development the notion of web services is introduced and relevant standards in this area are briefly described. Following a motivation for converting language technology applications into web services we describe relevant criteria for web service modeling and give examples for such services based on a large language information infrastructure developed over the last years. Finally, some technical details illustrate our web service prototype.