Linear Segmentation and Segment Significance

We present a new method for discovering a segmental discourse structure of a document while categorizing each segment's function and importance. Segments are determined by a zero-sum weighting scheme, used on occurrences of noun phrases and pronominal forms retrieved from the document. Segment roles are then calculated from the distribution of the terms in the segment. Finally, we present results of evaluation in terms of precision and recall which surpass earlier approaches'.

• Publication year

  1998

• Venue

  VLC@COLING/ACL

• Publication date

  1998-09-15

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

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  arXiv cs/9809020
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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