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ACL
1994
14 years 5 days ago
An automatic Method of Finding Topic Boundaries
This article outlines a new method of locating discourse boundaries based on lexical cohesion and a graphical technique called dotplotting. The application of dotplotting to disco...
Jeffrey C. Reynar
COLING
2000
14 years 6 days ago
The effects of analysing cohesion on document summarisation
We argue that in general, the analysis of lexical cohesion factors in a document can drive a summarizer, as well as enable other content characterization tasks. More narrowly, thi...
Branimir Boguraev, Mary S. Neff
KDD
2006
ACM
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14 years 11 months ago
Hierarchical topic segmentation of websites
In this paper, we consider the problem of identifying and segmenting topically cohesive regions in the URL tree of a large website. Each page of the website is assumed to have a t...
Ravi Kumar, Kunal Punera, Andrew Tomkins
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Domain-independent text segmentation using anisotropic diffusion and dynamic programming
This paper presents a novel domain-independent text segmentation method, which identifies the boundaries of topic changes in long text documents and/or text streams. The method c...
Xiang Ji, Hongyuan Zha
ACL
2003
14 years 7 days ago
Discourse Segmentation of Multi-Party Conversation
We present a domain-independent topic segmentation algorithm for multi-party speech. Our feature-based algorithm combines knowledge about content using a text-based algorithm as a...
Michel Galley, Kathleen McKeown, Eric Fosler-Lussi...