Text Segmentation with Multiple Surface Linguistic Cues

Text Segmentation with Multiple Surface Linguistic Cues

In general, a certain range of sentences in a text, is widely assumed to form a coherent unit which is called a discourse segment. Identifying the segment boundaries is a first step to recognize the structure of a text. In this paper, we describe a method for identifying segment boundaries of a Japanese text with the aid of multiple surface linguistic cues, though our experiments might be small...

Intention-Based Segmentation: Human Reliability and Correlation with Linguistic Cues

Based on an empirical study of a corpus of spoken narratives, we show that human subjects can reliably perform linear segmentation of discourse, using communicative purpose as their criterion. The significant agreement among subjects leads us to conclude that linear segmentation is feasible for automation. We present a method for evaluating automated segmentation, using human performance as the...

Ground Plane Segmentation from Multiple Visual Cues

Fusion of Multiple Cues for Video Segmentation

The segmentation of video into contiguous scenes is becoming an important problem in many applications. Since video data is a rich source of spatio-temporal information, diierent types of features can be computed in the video data. Each of these features provide a cue for the segmenta-tion of video and is usually suucient to perform an approximate segmentation of video. However, the features ma...

Story Segmentation in News Videos Using Visual and Text Cues

In this paper, we present a framework for segmenting the news programs into different story topics. The proposed method utilizes both visual and text information of the video. We represent the news video by a Shot Connectivity Graph (SCG), where the nodes in the graph represent the shots in the video, and the edges between nodes represent the transitions between shots. The cycles in the graph c...