An orthonormal basis for topic segmentation in tutorial dialogue
Abstract
This paper explores the segmentation of tutorial dialogue into cohesive topics. A latent semantic space was created using conversations from human to human tutoring transcripts, allowing cohesion between utterances to be measured using vector similarity. Previous cohesionbased segmentation methods that focus on expository monologue are reapplied to these dialogues to create benchmarks for performance. A novel moving window technique using orthonormal bases of semantic vectors significantly outperforms these benchmarks on this dialogue segmentation task. © 2005 Association for Computational Linguistics.
Publication Title
HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
Recommended Citation
Olney, A., & Cai, Z. (2005). An orthonormal basis for topic segmentation in tutorial dialogue. HLT/EMNLP 2005 - Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference, 971-978. https://doi.org/10.3115/1220575.1220697
