A Joint Model for Document Segmentation and Segment Labeling

Joe Barrow, Rajiv Jain, Vlad Morariu, Varun Manjunatha, Douglas Oard, Philip Resnik

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Information Retrieval and Text Mining Long Paper

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Abstract: Text segmentation aims to uncover latent structure by dividing text from a document into coherent sections. Where previous work on text segmentation considers the tasks of document segmentation and segment labeling separately, we show that the tasks contain complementary information and are best addressed jointly. We introduce Segment Pooling LSTM (S-LSTM), which is capable of jointly segmenting a document and labeling segments. In support of joint training, we develop a method for teaching the model to recover from errors by aligning the predicted and ground truth segments. We show that S-LSTM reduces segmentation error by 30% on average, while also improving segment labeling.
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