Process / pipeline

Text Segmentation — Topic-Boundary Detection

Text segmentation divides a long document into meaningful sections (segments) along topic or discourse boundaries. Introduced for subtopic passages by Marti A. Hearst's TextTiling (1997), it supports document-structure analysis and the detection of topic transitions in continuous text.

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Sources

  1. Hearst, M.A. (1997). TextTiling: Segmenting Text into Multi-Paragraph Subtopic Passages. Computational Linguistics, 23(1), 33-64. link
  2. Choi, F.Y.Y. (2000). Advances in Domain Independent Linear Text Segmentation. NAACL. link

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ScholarGateText Segmentation (Text Segmentation (Topic Segmentation)). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/en/text-mining/text-segmentation