Visual Editor uses Parasoid to covert markup to HTML. It could then be possible to strip the HTML with a standard library. https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Parsoid
There are some alternative parsers listed here, but I have no idea on how well any perform/scale. https://m.mediawiki.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers
Would love to hear if anyone has a better answer. Obviously a plain text dump or even an HTML dump could save a good amount of processing.
Cheers, Scott
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016, 15:18 Bruno Goncalves bgoncalves@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I was wondering if there is any place where I can find text (without markup, etc) only versions of wikipedia suitable for NLP tasks? I've been able to find a couple of old ones for the english wikipedia but I would like to analyze different languages (mandarin, arabic, etc...).
Of course, any pointers to software that I can use to convert the usual XML dumps to text would be great as well.
Best,
Bruno
Bruno Miguel Tavares Gonçalves, PhD Homepage: www.bgoncalves.com Email: bgoncalves@gmail.com
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