#Summarize# A collection of Python scripts to research automated summarization.

##Rule Based##

###rulebasedsumm.py### Rules:

• Keywords in article titles are highly important
• The first sentence of an article is highly important
• The second sentence of an article is important
• Sentences are important when they contain keywords from the article title.

Input:

ENDANGERED ASIAN 'UNICORN' CAPTURED, FIRST SIGHTING IN DECADE
(CNN) -- Scientists have confirmed the first sighting in more 
than a decade of one of the world's rarest animals -- the saola, 
sometimes called the Asian "unicorn." The animal was captured 
by villagers in Laos in August, according to the International 
Union for the Conservation of Nature.

The villagers took the saola back to their village in 
Bolikhamxay province and Laotian conservation authorities 
sent a team to check on the animal. The creature, likely 
weakened from its time in captivity, died shortly after that 
team arrived.

"The death of this saola is unfortunate," the Provincial 
Conservation Unit of Bolikhamxay province said in the IUCN 
statement. "But at least it confirms an area where it still 
occurs and the government will immediately move to strengthen 
conservation efforts there."

This was the first confirmed sighting of a saola since 1999, 
when remotely triggered cameras took images of one in Laos.

First discovered in 1992, the saola is considered critically 
endangered, its numbers so few that biologists have never 
witnessed one in the wild. Fewer than a few hundred saolas 
are believed to roam the Annamite Mountains of Laos and 
Vietnam. There are none in captivity.

The rarity of the saola, which resembles an African antelope 
but it more closely related genetically to wild cattle, gives 
it mythical status in some circles, according to the IUCN.

The saola, although it has two horns, may be the basis of 
the mythical Chinese unicorn, the qilin, although it is unknown 
if saolas ever existed in China.

The carcass of the saola recovered in the Laotian village was 
being preserved for study, officials said.

"Study of the carcass can yield some good from this unfortunate 
incident. Our lack of knowledge of Saola biology is a major 
constraint to efforts to conserve it," says Dr. Pierre Comizzoli, 
a veterinarian with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology 
Institute and a member of the IUCN Saola Working Group.

"This can be a major step forward in understanding this remarkable 
and mysterious species.

Output:

ENDANGERED ASIAN 'UNICORN' CAPTURED, FIRST SIGHTING IN DECADE
(CNN) -- Scientists have confirmed the first sighting in more 
than a decade of one of the world's rarest animals -- the saola, 
sometimes called the Asian "unicorn. The animal was captured by 
villagers in Laos in August, according to the International 
Union for the Conservation of Nature. 

"The death of this saola is unfortunate," the Provincial Conservation 
Unit of Bolikhamxay province said in the IUCN statement.

The saola, although it has two horns, may be the basis of the mythical 
Chinese unicorn, the qilin, although it is unknown if saolas ever 
existed in China. The carcass of the saola recovered in the Laotian 
village was being preserved for study, officials said.

Todo: extract important news derivatives like:

This was the first confirmed sighting of a saola since 1999, 
when remotely triggered cameras took images of one in Laos.