Acromine Disambiguation REST Service (Request Access)

Acromine Disambiguation REST Service provides a RESTful interface, where you can disambiguate abbreviations in text from your client programs. It is necessary to obtain an access key to use the service.

Sample

• Sample response for the text, "The ER is found in the nucleus of several tissues."

Acromine Disambiguation REST API

This Web service receives a text as a parameter, and returns the result of abbreviation disambiguation in JSON format.

Request URL (GET)

To use this service, send an HTTP GET request to the following URL:

http://www.nactem.ac.uk/software/acromine_disambiguation/rest.py

Request parameters

This table explains the parameters for the service.

Name	Type	Description
key	string	The key string to access the service.
text	string	The text for which this service disambiguate abbreviations.

Response

The service returns an array in JSON format. Each element in the array consists of the following members:

Name	Type	Description
type	string	Type of the abbreviation. "definition": abbreviation definition, "local": local abbreviation, "global": global abbreviation.
sf	string	Short form.
sbegin	int	The offset, in characters, from which the short form appears.
send	int	The offset, in characters, just beyond the short form.
lf	string	Long form.
lbegin	int	The offset, in characters, from which the long form appears. This field exists only when the type is "definition".
lend	int	The offset, in characters, just beyond the long form. This field exists only when the type is "definition".