Text Segmentation

This section is concerned with text segmentation, which is another text mining task. Text segmentation is defined as the process of partitioning a text into subtexts, depending on topic transition. In the process of text segmentation, a text is partitioned into paragraphs, and adjacent paragraph pairs are generated by sliding two sized windows on the paragraph list. Text segmentation is mapped into a text classification task, which classifies each pair into boundary or continuance. In this chapter, we describe the text segmentation with respect to its functions, methods, and derivations.