About

This is an adapter for NLP2RDF and the MontyLingua Toolkit.

Requirements

• MontyLingua
• rdflib

Before using the tool you have to define an environment variable called MONTYLINGUA which links to the directory containing the datafiles (.MDF).

For example: export MONTYLINGUA=/home/foo/montylingua-2.1/python

Usage

Webservice

python server.py

The webservice runs on port 8001 at /service by default. For parameters etc see the NIF spec.

Therefore you can curl your query like this

curl "http://localhost:8001/service?nif=true&input-type=text&input=This%20is%20a%20city%20called%20Berlin."

or simply use your browser to query the target.

Console

python nif.py

But this method is mainly for debugging purposes and supports only hardcoded options.

Example

Take a look at this gist for an example output.

Troubleshooting

• There are abnormal POS tags used instead of the normal PENN tagset.

  This means that the lexicon files of MontyLingua weren't created correctly. Try removing the FASTLEXICON_*.MDF files in the python directory of MontyLingua and run your query again. MontyLingua will create new lexicon files.