This paper presents the XML based service markup format SESMA. The proposed language aims to increase the usability of semantic Web service descriptions by presenting a compact syntax, providing convenient support for nondeterministic services and by aligning the annotation format with industry standards like WSDL and BPEL. The present paper describes the design goals of the language, contrasts...

In this paper we discuss the application of web service technology to the language technology (LT) and corpus processing domain. Motivated by a host of language technology tools which are wid3ely available but which lack common technical standards for integrating them into language technology applications we discuss the implementation of a web service-based API for web-based processing and acce...

Multilinguality need not be textual only, but will take on spoken form, when information services are to extend beyond national boundaries, or across language groups. Database access by speech will need to handle multiple languages to service customers from different language groups within a country or travelers from abroad. Public service operators (emergency, police, department of transportat...

Service replication is a key to providing high availability, fault tolerance and good performance in distributed systems. However, building a service replication system is a di cult and complex task. This paper describes a tool that mimics the design of the remote procedure call (RPC) system to support building distributed service replication systems. The tool includes an interface de nition la...