pyNIF-lib

What is NIF (NLP Interchange Format) ?

The NLP Interchange Format (NIF) is an RDF/OWL-based format that aims to achieve interoperability between Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools, language resources and annotations. NIF consists of specifications, ontologies and software (overview).

Documentation

NIF Documentation

Supported versions

• 2.1

Supported formats

• Turtle

Usage

0. Import and instantiate

import NIF21


nif21 = NIF21.NIF21()

1. Create a context

nif21.context("http://freme-project.eu", 0, 33, "Diego Maradona is from Argentina.")

2. Create entries for the entities

nif21.bean('Diego Maradona',
           0,
           14,
           ['http://dbpedia.org/ontology/SportsManager', 'http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Person', 'http://nerd.eurecom.fr/ontology#Person'],
           0.9869992701528016,
           'http://freme-project.eu/tools/freme-ner',
           'http://dbpedia.org/resource/Diego_Maradona',
           'http://dbpedia.org/ontology/SoccerManager')


nif21.bean('Argentina',
           23,
           32,
           ['http://dbpedia.org/ontology/PopulatedPlace', 'http://nerd.eurecom.fr/ontology#Location',
            'http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Place'],
           0.9804963628413852,
           'http://freme-project.eu/tools/freme-ner',
           'http://dbpedia.org/resource/Argentina',
           None)

3. Finally, get the output with the format that you need

print nif21.turtle()

Issues

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