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GraWiTas: a Grammar-based Wikipedia Talk Page Parser
Benjamin Cabrera, Laura Steinert, Bj{\"o}rn Ross
Wikipedia offers researchers unique insights into the collaboration and communication patterns of a large self-regulating community of editors. The main medium of direct communication between editors of an article is the article{'}s talk page. However, a talk page file is unstructured and therefore difficult to analyse automatically. A few parsers exist that enable its transformation into a structured data format. However, they are rarely open source, support only a limited subset of the talk page syntax {--} resulting in the loss of content {--} and usually support only one export format. Together with this article we offer a very fast, lightweight, open source parser with support for various output formats. In a preliminary evaluation it achieved a high accuracy. The parser uses a grammar-based approach {--} offering a transparent implementation and easy extensibility.
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