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Summarize-II

I talked about my summarization tool in the previous post.  I have pushed the source code in  github https://github.com/kalyanceg/summarize . Its completely undocumented. Probably I will add a javadoc for all methods and classes in a couple of weeks. If somebody wishes to contribute to the codebase or build over the existing utility, feel free to checkout the repository and it will be good if you push the changes (productive ones) back to the repo.

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