Signal processing via web services: The use case WebMAUS

Abstract

The CLARIN infrastructure aims at providing a technical infrastructure for language resources.In this context we present the design of a web service and a corresponding interface to provide easy access to an formerly only locally executable application for automatic segmentation and labeling called Munich AUtomatic Segmentation (MAUS).Using a standard description format we not only make the manual usage of those services possible, but also enable access from within other services or chaining engines like WebLicht.As an example for the integration of the web service in another application, we show the WebMAUS integration into ELAN.