Sciweavers

52 search results - page 1 / 11
» Bayesian Unsupervised Topic Segmentation
Sort
View
EMNLP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Bayesian Unsupervised Topic Segmentation
This paper describes a novel Bayesian approach to unsupervised topic segmentation. Unsupervised systems for this task are driven by lexical cohesion: the tendency of wellformed se...
Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay
ACL
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Topic Modelling for Multi-Party Spoken Discourse
We present a method for unsupervised topic modelling which adapts methods used in document classification (Blei et al., 2003; Griffiths and Steyvers, 2004) to unsegmented multi-pa...
Matthew Purver, Konrad P. Körding, Thomas L. ...
CVPR
2009
IEEE
13 years 7 months ago
Robust unsupervised segmentation of degraded document images with topic models
Segmentation of document images remains a challenging vision problem. Although document images have a structured layout, capturing enough of it for segmentation can be difficult....
Timothy J. Burns, Jason J. Corso
ACL
2012
11 years 7 months ago
SITS: A Hierarchical Nonparametric Model using Speaker Identity for Topic Segmentation in Multiparty Conversations
One of the key tasks for analyzing conversational data is segmenting it into coherent topic segments. However, most models of topic segmentation ignore the social aspect of conver...
Viet-An Nguyen, Jordan L. Boyd-Graber, Philip Resn...
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Gestural Cohesion for Topic Segmentation
This paper explores the relationship between discourse structure and coverbal gesture. Using the idea of gestural cohesion, we show that coherent topic segments are characterized ...
Jacob Eisenstein, Regina Barzilay, Randall Davis