Exploiting conversation structure in unsupervised topic segmentation for emails

EMNLP 2010 - Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 388-398

  Joty, Shafiq ^a   Carenini, Giuseppe ^a   Murray, Gabriel ^a   Ng, Raymond T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATIONS; LEXICAL CHAIN; LEXICAL INFORMATION; SEGMENTER;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STATISTICS;

ELECTRONIC MAIL;

EID: 80053279502     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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