Topical Segmentation of Spoken Narratives: A Test Case on Holocaust Survivor Testimonies. (arXiv:2210.13783v1 [cs.CL])

The task of topical segmentation is well studied, but previous work has
mostly addressed it in the context of structured, well-defined segments, such
as segmentation into paragraphs, chapters, or segmenting text that originated
from multiple sources. We tackle the task of segmenting running (spoken)
narratives, which poses hitherto unaddressed challenges. As a test case, we
address Holocaust survivor testimonies, given in English. Other than the
importance of studying these testimonies for Holocaust research, we argue that
they provide an interesting …

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