Multi-paragraph segmentation of expository text

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1994-June, Issue , 1994, Pages 9-16

  Hearst, Marti A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN INDEPENDENTS; HUMAN JUDGMENTS; LEXICAL DISTRIBUTION; LEXICAL FREQUENCY; PARAGRAPH SEGMENTATION; TEXTTILING;

EID: 85149131035     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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