1994/06/07 by Reynar, Jeffrey C.
#Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cmp-lg/9406017
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 discourse segmentation can be performed either manually, by examining a graph, or automatically, using an optimization algorithm. The results of two experiments involving automatically locating boundaries between a series of concatenated documents are presented. Areas of application and future directions for this work are also outlined.