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Platonides wrote:

Farkas, Illes wrote:

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Dear All,

Is the dump file containing the page abstracts for Yahoo produced by human or machines ?

Thanks

It's producesd by a machine, extracting the beginning of all articles (which are human-created).

It's a machine attempting to pull the first two sentences of the article as plaintext, sometimes more successfully than others. :)

I'm not sure these files are actually still being used, though.

You can find the code in: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/ActiveAbstract/

But I think the newer code here to pull the first sentence is more reliable (requires current MediaWiki with new parser): http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/OpenSearchXml/

- -- brion