Abstract
We developed a providing service system of a terminological system, using a framework of Web Services, since we aims at improvement in the reusability and at efficient providing of a terminological system. The following two applications are successfully developed with the providing service system as a back-end service; one is a browsing system of several terminological systems and the other is a cooperating system with Web service of Google: search engine of Web pages. We used EDR technical term dictionary and a hierarchical structure data by Open Directory Project, as typical terminological systems. One service corresponds to one terminological system in our implementation, and has two interfaces; one searches word entries and the other acquires the structure of the entry. Various access methods to a terminological system are integrated to the access method with the framework of Web Service. Then, the method makes it possible for a user and a provider to access a terminological system in distributed way.
