Advances in domain independent linear text segmentation

  • Authors:
  • Freddy Y. Y. Choi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Manchester, Manchester, England

  • Venue:
  • NAACL 2000 Proceedings of the 1st North American chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics conference
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

This paper describes a method for linear text segmentation which is twice as accurate and over seven times as fast as the state-of-the-art (Reynar, 1998). Inter-sentence similarity is replaced by rank in the local context. Boundary locations are discovered by divisive clustering.