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To use this API, you must first create an account on the BabelNet website and download a local BabelNet index (we specifically use BabelNet v4.0). Please follow the instructions on the BabelNet website to how to download the index.
- Java
- Apache Maven
We assume the index is extracted into directory /path/to/babelnet-v4.0-index. You must then modify babelnet-api/config/babelnet.var.properties and set the variable babelnet.dir to the directory where you stored the index (e.g. /path/to/babelnet-v4.0-index). You can optionally also use the api directly without the index with BabelNet their api calls, which however do have a limited amount of requests per day, by setting the babelnet.key variable to your security key.
Then you need to compile the code.
mvn compile
If you want to check whether your offline indices work, run the following:
mvn test
To start using this api yourself, start the webserver so you can query BabelNet.
mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="nl.celp.App" or ./run.sh
This will load the index and serve it in the local machine under localhost:8080. Now you can continue with the creation of VisualSem with the use of this local requestable.