BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: UCB//S2K-93-24
ENTRY:: February 25, 1994 
TITLE:: TextTiling: A Quantitative Approach to Discourse
        Segmentation 
DATE:: 
AUTHOR:: Hearst, Marti A.  
PAGES:: 10
ABSTRACT:: This paper represents TextTiling, a method for
partitioning full-length text documents into coherent 
multiparagraph units. The layout of text tiles is meant
to reflect the pattern of subtropics contained in an 
expository text. The approach uses lexical analyses based
on tfidf, and information retrieval measurement, to determine
the extent of the tiles, incorporating thesaural information
via a statistical disambiguation algorithm. The tiles have 
been found to correspond will to human judgements of the 
major subtopic boundaries of science magazine articles.  
RETRIEVAL:: postscript (in all.ps)
END:: UCB//S2K-93-24