On the contribution of discourse structure to topic segmentation
Paula Christina Figueira Cardoso, Maite Taboada, Thiago Alexandre Salgueiro Pardo · 2013
In this paper, we describe novel methods for topic segmentation based on patterns of discourse organization. Using a corpus of news texts, our results show that it is possible to use discourse features (based on Rhetorical Structure Theory) for topic segmentation and that we outperform some well-known methods. 1