[Corpora-List] How do we extract actual text in html?

[Siddhartha Jonnalagadda]

something in Java?

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Nitin Madnani <nmadnani at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
>
> - Nitin
>
> On Jul 31, 2010, at 8:26 PM, Siddhartha Jonnalagadda <sid.kgp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Is it trivial to extract the title and relevant text (ignoring the ads and
> other irrelevant stuff)? For example, in the website:
> <http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/chelsea-clinton-marries-in-ny-3680168>
> http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/chelsea-clinton-marries-in-ny-3680168
>
> I am only interested in extracting the tile: "Chelsea Clinton marries in
> NY"
> and the subject below. How easy is this?
>
> "Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter married her long-time boyfriend in the
> picturesque New York village of Rhinebeck today in what has been dubbed
> America's royal wedding.
>
> Chelsea Clinton - the only child of the former US president and the US
> secretary of state - wed Marc Mezvinsky at Astor Courts, an historic 50-acre
> (20-hectare) estate on the Hudson River, about 160 km north of New York
> City.
>
> "Today, we watched with great pride and overwhelming emotion as Chelsea and
> Marc wed in a beautiful ceremony at Astor Courts, surrounded by family and
> their close friends," Bill and Hillary Clinton said in a statement.
>
> "We could not have asked for a more perfect day to celebrate the beginning
> of their life together, and we are so happy to welcome Marc into our
> family," the statement said.
>
> "On behalf of the newlyweds, we want to give special thanks to the people
> of Rhinebeck for welcoming us and to everyone for their well-wishes on this
> special day."
>
> The statement, sent just after 7:30 pm (12:30pm NZT today), did not
> indicate exactly when the nuptials took place.
>
> On Friday night, Bill and Hillary Clinton waved to crowds of onlookers as
> they arrived at the historic Beekman Arms Inn in the center of Rhinebeck for
> a late-night cocktail party for some of the wedding guests.
>
> [image: Advertisement]
> <http://ad.au.doubleclick.net/jump/tvnz.co.nz/news/world-news/reuters/_3680168;pos=mid;sectn=world-news;site=news;kw=ONENEWS;kw=WORLD;kw=BILLCLINTON;kw=HILLARYCLINTON;sourc=Reuters;sid=425822;did=3680168;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?>
>
> Apart from the parents of the bride, the only other high profile guests
> seen in Rhinebeck have been Bill Clinton's former secretary of state,
> Madeleine Albright, actors Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen and fashion
> designer Vera Wang.
>
> Also spotted was real estate scion and movie producer billionaire Steve
> Bing. Bing lent Bill Clinton his jet to fly to North Korea in August of last
> year to bring home American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee after they
> spent four months imprisoned in the reclusive communist state.
>
> Guests boarded buses in Rhinebeck to be taken to Astor Courts about 5 pm
> EDT (10am NZT)
>
> Chelsea Clinton, 30, and Mezvinsky, 32, have known each other since they
> were teenagers. He is an investment banker, whose parents Marjorie
> Margolies-Mezvinsky and Edward Mezvinsky were once Democratic US House of
> Representatives members.
>
> Chelsea Clinton, who worked at a New York hedge fund and has more recently
> studied health policy at Columbia University, has kept a low profile since
> her father left the White House in January 2001, although she campaigned for
> her mother during her failed run for the 2008 Democratic presidential
> nomination.
>
> Signs and pictures congratulating the newlyweds hang in many shop windows
> in Rhinebeck, which has been swarmed by media around the world for an event
> that experts estimate to have cost between $US3 million and $US5 million.
>
> Airspace above Rhinebeck has been closed for 12 hours from 3 pm EDT (7pm
> NZT) today for the wedding and media were kept well away from the entrance
> to Astor Courts. Security in the area was comparable to that surrounding
> state visits.
>
> The guest list was reported to be between 400 and 500, but did not include
> a very understanding President Barack Obama.
>
> "Hillary and Bill properly want to keep this as a thing for Chelsea and her
> soon-to-be husband," Obama said on The View talk show on Thursday. "It would
> be tough enough to have one president at a wedding. You don't want two
> presidents."
> "
>
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