Language Server Protocol

Document Services Community Group,

Hello. I recently found an interesting technology which could be relevant to providing document services for both formal-language and natural-language documents. That technology is the Language Server Protocol.

https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/

“The Language Server Protocol (LSP) defines the protocol used between an editor or IDE and a language server that provides language features like auto complete, go to definition, find all references etc. The goal of the Language Server Index Format (LSIF, pronounced like "else if") is to support rich code navigation in development tools or a Web UI without needing a local copy of the source code.”

Could something like the Language Server Protocol, perhaps something based on it, be of use for natural-language documents? Could something like this be of use as a protocol between natural-language-document-authoring tools and document service components like spellchecking, grammar checking, readability analysis, sentiment analysis, analysis of subjectivity and objectivity, fact-checking, reasoning checking, and argument verification and validation?


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski