Statistical models for topic segmentation

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1999-June, Issue , 1999, Pages 357-364

  Reynarl, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IR TECHNIQUES; NOVEL ALGORITHM; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; STATISTIC MODELING; TOPIC SEGMENTATIONS;

EID: 85149127550     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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