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# Subset of New York Times Corpus
# for Project Information Retrieval (PIR)
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# contact: Manos Tsagkias <e.tsagkias@uva.nl>
#          Christof Monz  <c.monz@uva.nl>
# last revision: 26 Januart 2010
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the data/ directory is a subset of the New York Times
Corpus released by LDC. The subset includes 7.167 
articles from April 2007.

The directory structure is as follows:
year-month -> day -> article.xml

Each article comes in one XML file in the
corresponding directory. 

Sample data is provided in the directory: sample/
Contains 208 articles from May 01, 2007.

In the docs/ directory you can find useful guidelines
on how to access the XML data. Extraction tools
written in JAVA can be found in the tools/ directory.