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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">109</journal-id>
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        <journal-title xml:lang="en">JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science</journal-title>
        <abbrev-journal-title xml:lang="en">jucs</abbrev-journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="ppub">0948-695X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="epub">0948-6968</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Journal of Universal Computer Science</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.3217/jucs-014-02-0178</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">28935</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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          <subject>I.2.7 - Natural Language Processing</subject>
          <subject>I.7 - DOCUMENT AND TEXT PROCESSING</subject>
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        <article-title>Using an Evolving Thematic Clustering in a Text Segmentation Process</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Lamprier</surname>
            <given-names>Sylvain</given-names>
          </name>
          <email xlink:type="simple">lamprier@info.univ-angers.fr</email>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Amghar</surname>
            <given-names>Tassadit</given-names>
          </name>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Levrat</surname>
            <given-names>Bernard</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name name-style="western">
            <surname>Saubion</surname>
            <given-names>Frederic</given-names>
          </name>
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      <aff id="A1">
        <label>1</label>
        <addr-line content-type="verbatim">LERIA - University of Angers, Angers, France</addr-line>
        <institution>LERIA - University of Angers</institution>
        <addr-line content-type="city">Angers</addr-line>
        <country>France</country>
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      <author-notes>
        <fn fn-type="corresp">
          <p>Corresponding author: Sylvain Lamprier (<email xlink:type="simple">lamprier@info.univ-angers.fr</email>).</p>
        </fn>
        <fn fn-type="edited-by">
          <p>Academic editor: </p>
        </fn>
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      <pub-date pub-type="collection">
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>28</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2008</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>14</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>178</fpage>
      <lpage>192</lpage>
      <uri content-type="arpha" xlink:href="http://openbiodiv.net/A1293F17-DC54-5E45-B09C-872734AF6189">A1293F17-DC54-5E45-B09C-872734AF6189</uri>
      <uri content-type="zenodo_dep_id" xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/record/7000072">7000072</uri>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-statement>Sylvain Lamprier, Tassadit Amghar, Bernard Levrat, Frederic Saubion</copyright-statement>
        <license license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="" xlink:type="simple">
          <license-p>This article is freely available under the J.UCS Open Content License.</license-p>
        </license>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <label>Abstract</label>
        <p>The thematic text segmentation task consists in identifying the most important thematic breaks in a document in order to cut it into homogeneous passages. We propose in this paper an algorithm for linear text segmentation on general corpuses. It relies on an initial clustering of the sentences of the text. This preliminary partitioning provides a global view on the sentences relations existing in the text, considering the similarities in a group rather than individually. The method, so-called ClassStruggle, is based on the distribution of the occurrences of the members of each class. During the process, the clusters then evolve, by considering a notion of proximity and of layout in the text, in the aim to create groups that contain only sentences related to a same topic development. Finally, boundaries are created between sentences belonging to two different classes. First experimental results are promising, ClassStruggle appears to be very competitive compared with existing methods.</p>
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