Summarize a text with Python

How to efficiently summarize a text with Python and NLTK

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Sometimes you need a summary of a given text. I ran into this challenge when I was building a collection of news posts. Using the complete text to interpret the meaning of an article took a lot of time (I have about 250.000 collected), so I started looking for a way to summarize a text to three sentences. This article…