pygeonlp-webapi 1.1.0

Pygeonlp WebAPI Server

pygeonlp-webapi, A json-rpc webapi server for pygeonlp

pygeonlp-webapi is a WSGI module to use pygeonlp features as a JSON-RPC web service.

How To Use

The server for development using Flask can be run with the following command.

$ python -m pygeonlp_webapi.app

or

$ FLASK_APP="pygeonlp_webapi.app" flask run --port=5000

If you prefer gunicorn, you can run the following command.

$ gunicorn pygeonlp_webapi.app:app --bind=127.0.0.1:5000

Then, post a JSON-RPC message to the server.

$ curl -X POST -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "geonlp.parse", "params":{"sentence":"NIIは千代田区にあります。"}, "id":"1"}' http://localhost:5000/api

More detailed Japanese documentation of the software including API is available under /doc directory. You can also find the latest online documentation at Web Service section in GeoNLP Documentation.

Pre-requirements

pygeonlp-webapi requires pygeonlp and flask-jsonrpc.

Install

The pygeonlp-webapi package can be installed with the pip command. It is recommended that you upgrade pip and setuptools to the latest versions before running it.

$ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
$ pip install pygeonlp-webapi

The database needs to be prepared the first time.

Prepare the database

Execute the command to register the basic place name word analysis dictionaries (*.json, *.csv) in this package into the database under the default diretory.

>>> import pygeonlp.api as api
>>> api.setup_basic_database()

Run tests (Optional)

Run the unit tests with pytest command.

Uninstall

Use pip command to uninstall.

$ pip uninstall pygeonlp-webapi

License

The 2-Clause BSD License

Acknowledgements

This software is supported by DIAS (Data Integration and Analysis System) and ROIS-DS CODH (Center for Open Data in the Humanities).

It was also supported by JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) PRESTO program.