Text Segmentation Using Roget-Based Weighted Lexical Chains

Authors

  • Doina Tatar University "Babeş-Bolyai", Cluj-Napoca
  • Diana Inkpen University of Ottawa
  • Gabriela Czibula University "Babeş-Bolyai", Cluj-Napoca

Keywords:

Lexical chains, text segmentation, topic boundaries, Roget's thesaurus, segmentation evaluation

Abstract

In this article we present a new method for text segmentation. The method relies on the number of lexical chains (LCs) which end in a sentence, which begin in the following sentence and which traverse the two successive sentences. The lexical chains are based on Roget's thesaurus (the 1987 and the 1911 version). We evaluate the method on ten texts from the DUC 2002 conference and on twenty texts from the CAST project corpus, using a manual segmentation as gold standard.

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Published

2013-05-23

How to Cite

Tatar, D., Inkpen, D., & Czibula, G. (2013). Text Segmentation Using Roget-Based Weighted Lexical Chains. Computing and Informatics, 32(2), 393–410. Retrieved from http://147.213.75.17/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/1628

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 2 (2013): Computing and Informatics

Section

Articles