Today I read a paper titled “An Automatic Method of Finding Topic Boundaries”
The abstract is:
This article outlines a new method of locating discourse boundaries based on lexical cohesion and a graphical technique called dotplotting.
The application of dotplotting to discourse segmentation can be performed either manually, by examining a graph, or automatically, using an optimization algorithm.
The results of two experiments involving automatically locating boundaries between a series of concatenated documents are presented.
Areas of application and future directions for this work are also outlined..