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You can download the sample data, release 0.1, by clicking here

(just in case, the initial release is still here)

Online Forum Summarization (OnForumS), MultiLing 2015

README for the sample data release

The sample data is formed of one news article from The Guardian and a select set of readers' comments.

There are five files constituting the sample data release:
1. 81043636.ofs.in.xml
2. 81043636.ofs.out.xml
3. 81043636.utf8.txt
4. outputFormatOFS.txt
5. ofs.dtd

Participants will be expected to take file 1 as input and produce file 2 as output
by populating the section accordingly. File 3 is provided as an
auxiliary text version of the input, file 4 is a sketch of the XML format with
comments and file 5 is a DTD specification of the XML format. The text in file 1
is sentence-split and pre-tokenised (i.e., with spaces between tokens), whereas in
file 3 it is not.

The test data to be handed out for the final evaluation will be formed of a set of
news articles, where for each article there will be a pair of files, one XML file like
file 1 above and one auxiliary text file like file 3 above.

In addition to the data, participants will receive a validation program that they
can run over their outputs in order to make sure these conform with the OnForumS
format expectations (DTD + some specific checks, see * below for DTD validation).

Please note that the set of links provided within file 2 in order to illustrate the
task is a non-exhaustive set of links which was the result of pre-pilot crowdsourcing
evaluations using Crowd Flower.

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* A Java DTD validator that can be used is the DOMValidator class at the following link:

http://www.herongyang.com/XML/DTD-Validation-of-XML-with-DTD-Using-DOM.html

Download the class, compile it and run it as follows:

java -Xmx1000M -Xms1000M -cpDOMValidator 81043636.ofs.out.xml

Information

For questions on OnForumS, please contact:

• Mijail Kabadjov - University of Essex (OnForumS Task co-chair), malexa @ essex.ac.uk or
• Josef Steinberger - University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic (OnForumS Task co-chair), jstein @ kiv.zcu.cz