Ask HN: Has anyone used the Freebase Wikipedia Extraction?

Posted by shafqat on Monday March 02, 2009 @03:31PM
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Has anyone used the Freebase WEX? Are there better ways to get Wikipedia article summaries easily? The Wikipedia API doesn't seem to have a simple way to extract just an article summary (i.e. the first paragraph).

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone used the Freebase Wikipedia Extraction? by babyshake on Monday March 02, 2009 @03:48PM (#500596)

Using WEX for a web application will require a ton of work that you want to avoid if possible.

Freebase does have a summary of each topic, typically pulled from wikipedia.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone used the Freebase Wikipedia Extraction? by shafqat on Monday March 02, 2009 @04:18PM (#500636)

Yes, but there is no way to get the summary from Freebase directly. They dont include the summary in the TSV textfile downloads they offer. On their site, it says the only way to get the summaries is via WEX.

Are there other good ways to get the Wikipedia summaries?

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone used the Freebase Wikipedia Extraction? by rchiniquy on Monday March 02, 2009 @06:57PM (#500818)

You can just download all their data in a giant tarball and pull it out of there yourself.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone used the Freebase Wikipedia Extraction? by rchiniquy on Monday March 02, 2009 @03:40PM (#500584)

Totally wondering about this myself. Not convinced Freebase is perfect for me.

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