I have already read the responses given in this post. I want to the extract the first paragraph (or the first sentence) for a list of <100 articles. I could not use JWPL beacause I don't have a big hard disk space to create the DB. I try to use JSoup but I need examples.

http://code.google.com/p/jwpl/ this looks also good JWPL (Java Wikipedia Library) is a free, Java-based application programming interface that allows to access all information contained in Wikipedia. have not tried that , but you said you wanted to do it in java. mike On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Mike Dupont &lt;jamesmikedupont(a)googlemail.com&gt; wrote: -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org

* Khalida BEN SIDI AHMED wrote: The dumps on http://dumps.wikimedia.org/backup-index.html have "page abstracts" which typically contain the first sentence. I've found that http://inamidst.com/phenny/modules/wikipedia.py (part of an IRC bot) works quite well, at least on the english version. I'd probably use my http://cutycapt.sf.net/ utility like so: % CutyCapt --url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire --user-style-string= " .mw-content-ltr > * { display: none } .mw-content-ltr > p:first-of-type, .mw-content-ltr > p:first-of-type * { display: inline } " --out=output.txt Where output.txt would then be something like Please read: A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales Read now Empire From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The term empire derives from the Latin imperium (power, authority)... You would then just have to strip the leading gibberish and possibly fiddle with the user style sheet to remove references for instance. You could also just use a sophisticated HTML parser and pick simply pick the `.mw-content-ltr > p:first-of-type` paragraph, but for just a few articles that would require some setup cost. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/

If you are focused on jsoup, then best to ask there on the mailing list http://jsoup.org/discussion On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Khalida BEN SIDI AHMED &lt;send.to.khalida(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova http://flossk.org

The list of the articles I will need is not known from the beggining. Through my project, I will find a list of words (50). I try to find for them definitions in Wikipedia. After that I will extract the hyperonym of each word. I will have a new list for which I then retrieve the respective articles...etc. So the the list of articles I need grows through the evolution of the algorithm' execution.

The words I use are belonging to a special domain (oil and gas industry). So Wordnet and even Wictionnary are not useful enough (they are generalized corpora). Thank you very much indeed.