Acromine REST Service (Request Access)

Acromine REST Service provides a RESTful interface, where you can use the Acromine dictionary from your client programs.

Client sample

• The response from the service for the abbreviation "HMM"
• JavaScript with prototype.js [View source] [Run]
• Python 2.6 or later (with JSON support) [View source] [Run]

Acromine REST API

This Web service receives a query abbreviation or fullform as parameters, and returns abbreviation definitions in JSON format.

Request URL (GET)

To obtain abbreviation definitions, send an HTTP GET request to the following URL:

http://www.nactem.ac.uk/software/acromine/dictionary.py

Request parameters

This table explains the parameters for the service.

Name	Type	Description
sf	string	Abbreviation for which definitions are to be retrieved.
lf	string	Fullforms for which abbreviations to be retrieved.

Response

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

Name	Type	Description
sf	string	Abbreviation.
lfs	array of longform objects	The array of longforms associated with the shortform.

Longform objects have the following members:

Name	Type	Description
lf	string	Representative form of the full form.
freq	integer	The number of occurrences of the definition in the corpus.
since	integer	The year when the definition appeared for the first time in the corpus.
vars	array of variation objects	An array of variation objects that gather surface expressions of the full form in the corpus.

Variation objects have the following members:

Name	Type	Description
lf	string	The surface form of the full form.
freq	integer	The number of occurrences of the surface form in the abbreviation definition in the corpus.
since	integer	The year when the surface form appeared for the first time in the corpus.