On the contribution of discourse structure to topic segmentation

SIGDIAL 2013 - 14th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 92-96

  Cardoso, Paula C F ^a   Taboada, Maite ^b   Pardo, Thiago A S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCOURSE STRUCTURE; NOVEL METHODS; RHETORICAL STRUCTURE THEORY; TOPIC SEGMENTATIONS;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 84987916844     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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