SITS: A hierarchical nonparametric model using speaker identity for topic segmentation in multiparty conversations

50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 78-87

  Nguyen, Viet An ^a   Boyd Graber, Jordan ^b   Resnik, Philip ^b  

^a Institute of Advanced Computer Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN; MULTI-PARTY CONVERSATIONS; NON-PARAMETRIC MODEL; POLITICAL CONTEXT; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; TELEVISION PROGRAMS; TOPIC SEGMENTATIONS; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

MODELS;

EID: 84878200241     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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