SEGMENTATION OF EXPOSITORY TEXT Marti
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This paper describes TextTiling, an algorithm for partitioning expository texts into coherent multi-paragraph discourse units which re ect the subtopic structure of the texts. The algorithm uses domain-independent lexical frequency and distribution information to recognize the interactions of multiple simultaneous themes. Two fully-implemented versions of the algorithmare described and shown to produce segmentation that corresponds well to human judgments of the major subtopic boundaries of thirteen lengthy texts.
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