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This paper presents a domain-independent approach for partitioning text documents into a set of topic-coherent segment units, where the structure of segments reflects the patterns of sub-topics of the processed text document. The approach adopts similarity analyses, which is based on Shannon Information Theory, to determine topic distribution among text documents without incorporating thesaurus information and other auxiliary knowledge bases. It first observes the documents in terms of consistency of distribution from the viewpoint of individual word and then constructs a number of segmentation proposals accordingly. Furthermore, it employs the K-means clustering technique to get a consensus from these proposals and finally partition text into a set of topic coherent paragraphs. Through extensive experimental studies based on real and synthetic data sources, the performance analysis illustrates the effectiveness of the approach in text segmentation.
This work is supported by the Key Science and Technology Plan of Zhejiang Province, China (Grant no. 2005C23047).
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Cai, K., Bu, J., Chen, C., Huang, P. (2006). An Automatic Approach for Efficient Text Segmentation. In: Gabrys, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4251. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11892960_51
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