Text segmentation

Known as: Chinese word segmentation, Word segmentation, Word splitting 
Text segmentation is the process of dividing written text into meaningful units, such as words, sentences, or topics. The term applies both to mental… (More)
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2005
Highly Cited
2005
Flexible Text Segmentation with Structured Multilabel Classification
Many language processing tasks can be reduced to breaking the text into segments with prescribed properties. Such tasks include… (More)
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Mining reference tables for automatic text segmentation
Automatically segmenting unstructured text strings into structured records is necessary for importing the information contained… (More)
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Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
A Critique and Improvement of an Evaluation Metric for Text Segmentation
The Pk evaluation metric, initially proposed by Beeferman, Berger, and Lafferty (1997), is becoming the standard measure for… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Advances in domain independent linear text segmentation
This paper describes a method for linear text segmentation which is twice as accurate and over seven times as fast as the state… (More)
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Maximum Entropy Markov Models for Information Extraction and Segmentation
Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are a powerful probabilistic tool for modeling sequential data, and have been applied with success to… (More)
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Statistical Models for Text Segmentation
This paper introduces a new statistical approach to automatically partitioning text into coherent segments. The approach is based… (More)
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Text Segmentation by Topic
A b s t r a c t . We investigate the problem of text segmentation by topic. Applications for this task include topic tracking of… (More)
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Text Segmentation Using Exponential Models
This paper introduces a new statistical approach to partitioning text automatically into coherent segments. Our approach enlists… (More)
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Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Text Segmentation Based on Similarity between Words
This paper proposes a new indicator of text structure, called the lexical cohesion profile (LCP), which locates segment… (More)
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Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Text segmentation using gabor filters for automatic document processing
There is a considerable interest in designing automatic systems that will scan a given paper document and store it on electronic… (More)
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