A realistic success criterion for discourse segmentation

Yondem M., Ucoluk G.

COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES - ISCIS 2003, cilt.2869, ss.592-600, 2003 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 2869
  • Basım Tarihi: 2003
  • Dergi Adı: COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCES - ISCIS 2003
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, Compendex, EMBASE, MathSciNet, Philosopher's Index, zbMATH
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.592-600
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this study, compared to the existing one, a more realistic evaluation method for discourse segmentation is introduced. It is believed that discourse segmentation is a fuzzy task [Pas96]. Human subjects may agree on different discourse boundaries, with high agreement among them. In the existing method a threshold value is calculated and sentences that marked by that many subjects are decided as real boundaries and other marks are not been considered. Furthermore automatically discovered boundaries, in case of being misplaced, are treated as a strict failure, disregarding the proximity wrt to the human found boundaries. The proposed method overcomes these shortcomings, and credits the fuzziness of the human subjects' decisions as well as tolerates misplacements of the automated discovery. The proposed method is tunable from crisp/harsh to fuzzy/tolerant on human decision as well as automated discovery handling.