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We have slightly improved our automatic generator of regular expressions by examples (mentioned in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4682545 posted by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ColinWright).

We also described how the system works—very informally and very briefly---and list some of the open questions.

The webapp generates regular expressions automatically, only by means of text extraction examples. An example is a string coupled with the substring to be extracted:

I am the "boss" of the research group that put the regex generator tool on line (http://machinelearning.inginf.units.it/ "Data and tools"): we are all VERY SORRY for any inconvenience we may have created.

We simply did not expect so much interest in our work. Yesterday we received more than 11000 visits. We are not prepared to handle such traffic.

We are working toward adding a few more CPUs and will notify the status on our Twitter account: http://twitter.com/@MaleLabTs.

We are afraid we will not be able to fully solve the overload problem anytime soon, though. We are a small research group, with scarce resources.

We are also preparing a small faq for addressing several of the interesting points raised in this discussion (e.g., why not executing everything in Javascript ?). We will notify completion via Twitter. Further comments and criticisms are most welcome.

Thanks a lot for your interest and patience.