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Subtopic structuring for full-length document access
1993
Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval - SIGIR '93
We argue that the advent of large volumes of fulllength text, as opposed to short texts like abstracts and newswire, should be accompanied by corresponding new approaches to information access. Toward this end, we discuss the merits of imposing structure on fulllength text documents that is, a partition of the text into coherent m ulti-paragraph units that represent t h e pattern of subtopics that comprise the text. Using this structure, we c a n m a k e a distinction between the main topics,
doi:10.1145/160688.160695
dblp:conf/sigir/HearstP93
fatcat:4skenl335jdrfgdvgpousbguta