Topic segmentation, which aims to fmd the boundaries between topic blocks in a text, is an important task for semantic analysis of texts. Although different solutions have been proposed for the task, many limitations and difficulties exist in the approaches. In particular most of the methods do not work well for such case as short texts, internet news and student's writings. In this paper, we f...

In a landmark study, Jusczyk & Aslin (1995) demonstrated that English-learning infants are able to segment words from continuous speech at 7.5 months of age. In the current study, we explored the possibility that infants segment words from the edges of utterances more readily than the middle of utterances. The same procedure was used as in Jusczyk & Aslin (1995), however our stimuli were contro...

Topic segmentation and identification are often tackled as separate problems whereas they are both part of topic analysis. In this article, we study how topic identification can help to improve a topic segmenter based on word reiteration. We first present an unsupervised method for discovering the topics of a text. Then, we detail how these topics are used by segmentation for finding topical si...

ELIS, University of Ghent, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium martens,odul,rvparijs @elis.rug.ac.be Dept Language & Speech, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9103, 6500 HD Nijmegen, The Netherlands [email protected] ESAT, K.U.Leuven, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Heverlee, Belgium kris.demuynck,tom.laureys,jacques.duchateau @esat.kuleuven.ac.be Abstract This paper describe...

Chinese text segmentation is important in Chinese text indexing. Due to the lack of word delimiters in Chinese text, Chinese text segmentation is more difficult than English text segmentation. Besides, the segmentation ambiguities and the occurrences of out-of-vocabulary words (i.e. unknown words) are the major challenges in Chinese segmentation. Many research works dealing with the problem of ...

Hand written Character Recognition is area of research since many years. Automation of existing manual system is need of most industries as well as government areas. Recognition of hand written characters is a demand for many fields. In this paper we have discussed our approach for hand written character segmentation. This paper discusses various methodologies to segment a text based image at v...