Automatic text decomposition using text segments and text themes
Published 1 January 1996Open access
Gerard Salton, Amit Singhal, Chris Buckley, Mandar Mitra
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The interaction between text segments and text themes is used to characterize text structure, and to formulate specifications for information retrieval, text traversal, and text summarization.
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With the widespread use of full-text information retrieval, passage-retrieval techniques are becoming increasingly popular.
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