The Lemon API

The lemon (Lexicon Model for Ontologies) API provides a programmatic interface for the lemon model. The lemon model is a model for describing lexica and their relationships to ontologies given in the OWL format. Lemon was designed with the following goals

• RDF-native
• Concise
• Descriptive not Prescriptive
• Modular
• Semantics by Reference

For more details of the lemon model see http://lemon-model.net

JavaDoc

JavaDoc is available at http://monnetproject.github.com/lemon.api/

Usage Example

final LemonSerializer serializer = LemonSerializer.newInstance();
final LemonModel model = serializer.create();
final Lexicon lexicon = model.addLexicon(
        URI.create("http://www.example.com/mylexicon"),
        "en" /*English*/);
final LexicalEntry entry = LemonModels.addEntryToLexicon(
        lexicon,
        URI.create("http://www.example.com/mylexicon/cat"),
        "cat",
        URI.create("http://dbpedia.org/resource/Cat"));

final LemonFactory factory = model.getFactory();
final LexicalForm pluralForm = factory.makeForm();
pluralForm.setWrittenRep(new Text("cats", "en"));
final LinguisticOntology lingOnto = new LexInfo();
pluralForm.addProperty(
        lingOnto.getProperty("number"),
        lingOnto.getPropertyValue("plural"));
entry.addOtherForm(pluralForm);

serializer.writeEntry(model, entry, lingOnto, 
        new OutputStreamWriter(System.out));