Topic segmentation algorithms for text summarization and passage retrieval: An exhaustive evaluation

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 1334-1339

  Dias, Gaël ^a   Alves, Elsa ^a,b   Lopes, José Gabriel Pereira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; WORD PROCESSING;

LANGUAGE-DEPENDENT SYSTEMS; LEXICAL REPETITION; PASSAGE RETRIEVAL; TOPIC SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 36348937811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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