Discourse segmentation in aid of document summarization

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages

  Boguraev, Branimir K ^a   Neff, Mary S ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

CONTEXTUALIZE; DISCOURSE SEGMENTATION; DOCUMENT SUMMARIZATION; INTERFACE DESIGNS; SEGMENTATION ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION PROCEDURE; SENTENCE-BASED; SHIFT DETECTION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 85094125657     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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