Building Web-Interfaces for Vector Semantic Models with the WebVectors Toolkit

We present WebVectors, a toolkit that facilitates using distributional semantic models in everyday research. Our toolkit has two main features: it allows to build web interfaces to query models using a web browser, and it provides the API to query models automatically. Our system is easy to use and can be tuned according to individual demands. This software can be of use to those who need to work with vector semantic models but do not want to develop their own interfaces, or to those who need to deliver their trained models to a large audience. WebVectors features vi- sualizations for various kinds of semantic queries. For the present moment, the web services with Russian, English and Norwegian models are available, built using WebVectors.

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