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CLAM: Computational Linguistics Application Mediator
CLAM allows you to quickly and transparently
transform your Natural Language Processing application into a RESTful
webservice, with which both human end-users as well as automated
clients can interact. CLAM takes a description of your system and
wraps itself around the system, allowing end-users or automated
clients to upload input files to your application, start your
application with specific parameters of their choice, and download and
view the output of the application once it is completed.
CLAM is set up in a universal fashion, requiring minimal effort
on the part of the service developer. Your actual NLP application is
treated as a black box, of which only the parameters, input formats
and output formats need to be described. Your application itself needs
not be network aware in any way, nor aware of CLAM, and the handling
and validation of input can be taken care of by CLAM.
CLAM is entirely written in Python, runs on UNIX-derived
systems, and is available as open source under the GNU Public License
(v3). It is set up in a modular fashion, and offers an API, and as
such is easily extendable. CLAM communicates in a transparent XML
format, and using XSL transformation offers a full web 2.0
web-interface for human end users.
CLAM is free software; you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
License as published by the Free
Software Foundation.
CLAM is written by Maarten van Gompel. Its development was funded by the NWO CLARIN-NL programme.
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