Text segmentation: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 09:12, 17 March 2014

Revision as of 21:30, 17 June 2014

Line 29:

=== Text segmentation ===

{{main|Topic analysis|Topic analysis|Document classification}}

Topic analysis consists of two main tasks: topic identification and text segmentation. While the first is a simple [[machine learning|classification]] of a specific text, the latter case implies that a document may contain multiple topics, and the task of computerized text segmentation may be to discover these topics automatically and segment the text accordingly. The topic boundaries may be apparent from section titles and paragraphs. In other cases, one needs to use techniques similar to those used in [[document classification]].