Multi-Paragraph Segmentation of Expository Text
<|reference_start|>Multi-Paragraph Segmentation of Expository Text: This paper describes TextTiling, an algorithm for partitioning expository texts into coherent multi-paragraph discourse units which reflect the subtopic structure of the texts. The algorithm uses domain-independent lexical frequency and distribution information to recognize the interactions of multiple simultaneous themes. Two fully-implemented versions of the algorithm are described and shown to produce segmentation that corresponds well to human judgments of the major subtopic boundaries of thirteen lengthy texts.<|reference_end|>
@article{hearst1994multi-paragraph,
    title={Multi-Paragraph Segmentation of Expository Text},
    author={Marti A. Hearst (UC Berkeley and Xerox PARC)},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9406037},
    year={1994},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9406037},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}