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+"""Example of Converting TextSum model data.
+Usage:
+python textsum_data_convert.py --command text_to_binary --in_directories dailymail/stories --out_files dailymail-train.bin,dailymail-validation.bin,dailymail-test.bin --split 0.8,0.15,0.05
+python textsum_data_convert.py --command text_to_vocabulary --in_directories cnn/stories,dailymail/stories --out_files vocab
+"""
+
+import collections
+import struct
+import sys
+
+from os import listdir
+from os.path import isfile, join
+
+from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize
+
+import tensorflow as tf
+from tensorflow.core.example import example_pb2
+
+
+FLAGS = tf.app.flags.FLAGS
+tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('command', 'text_to_binary',
+                           'Either text_to_vocabulary or text_to_binary.'
+                           'Specify FLAGS.in_directories accordingly.')
+tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('in_directories', '', 'path to directory')
+tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('out_files', '', 'comma separated paths to files')
+tf.app.flags.DEFINE_string('split', '', 'comma separated fractions of data')
+
+def _text_to_binary(input_directories, output_filenames, split_fractions):
+  filenames = _get_filenames(input_directories)
+  
+  start_from_index = 0
+  for index, output_filename in enumerate(output_filenames):
+    sample_count = int(len(filenames) * split_fractions[index])
+    print(output_filename + ': ' + str(sample_count))
+    
+    end_index = min(start_from_index + sample_count, len(filenames))
+    _convert_files_to_binary(filenames[start_from_index:end_index], output_filename)
+    
+    start_from_index = end_index
+
+def _text_to_vocabulary(input_directories, vocabulary_filename, max_words=200000):
+  filenames = _get_filenames(input_directories)
+    
+  counter = collections.Counter()
+    
+  for filename in filenames:
+    with open(filename, 'r') as f:
+      document = f.read()
+    
+    words = document.split()
+    counter.update(words)
+
+  with open(vocabulary_filename, 'w') as writer:
+    for word, count in counter.most_common(max_words - 2):
+      writer.write(word + ' ' + str(count) + '\n')
+    writer.write('<UNK> 0\n')
+    writer.write('<PAD> 0\n')
+
+def _get_filenames(input_directories):
+  filenames = []
+  for directory_name in input_directories:
+    filenames.extend([join(directory_name, f) for f in listdir(directory_name) if isfile(join(directory_name, f))])
+  return filenames
+        
+def _convert_files_to_binary(input_filenames, output_filename):
+  with open(output_filename, 'wb') as writer:
+    for filename in input_filenames:
+      with open(filename, 'r') as f:
+        document = f.read()
+    
+      document_parts = document.split('\n', 1)
+      assert len(document_parts) == 2
+    
+      title = '<d><p><s>' + document_parts[0] + '</s></p></d>'
+      
+      body = document_parts[1].decode('utf8').replace('\n', ' ').replace('\t', ' ')
+      sentences = sent_tokenize(body)
+      body = '<d><p>' + ' '.join(['<s>' + sentence + '</s>' for sentence in sentences]) + '</p></d>'
+      body = body.encode('utf8')
+    
+      tf_example = example_pb2.Example()
+      tf_example.features.feature['article'].bytes_list.value.extend([body])
+      tf_example.features.feature['abstract'].bytes_list.value.extend([title])
+      tf_example_str = tf_example.SerializeToString()
+      str_len = len(tf_example_str)
+      writer.write(struct.pack('q', str_len))
+      writer.write(struct.pack('%ds' % str_len, tf_example_str))
+
+def main(unused_argv):
+  assert FLAGS.command and FLAGS.in_directories and FLAGS.out_files
+  output_filenames = FLAGS.out_files.split(',')
+  input_directories = FLAGS.in_directories.split(',')
+  
+  if FLAGS.command == 'text_to_binary':
+    assert FLAGS.split
+    
+    split_fractions = [float(s) for s in FLAGS.split.split(',')]
+    
+    assert len(output_filenames) == len(split_fractions)
+    
+    _text_to_binary(input_directories, output_filenames, split_fractions)
+  
+  elif FLAGS.command == 'text_to_vocabulary':
+    assert len(output_filenames) == 1
+    
+    _text_to_vocabulary(input_directories, output_filenames[0])
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+  tf.app.run()
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