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@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ e) Now you would see proper translation panels.
 
 ## To execute sentences using API:
 please update the host IP in server.json from 10.2.63.52 to your IP and run following cvommand:
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+```
 $python GetShallowParserOutput.py -c server.json -i input.txt 
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+```
 ## To check which ports are allotted to different services, run following command:
 ```
 find ./ | grep 'run/.*_'