Resumen

MEDINA PAGOLA, José E.  y  HERNANDEZ ROJAS, Laritza. Segmentation by topics in multiparagraph documents. ACIMED [online]. 2007, vol.15, n.6. ISSN 1024-9435.

To automatically detect the adequate physical limits of subtopics in a document is a difficult but highly useful task in text processing. There is a few methods attempting to solve this problem, several of which have favorable results, although presenting some difficulties; also, many of these solutions depend on application skills. An analysis was made of two document segmentation algorithms and the results from each of them were compared.

Palabras clave : Lexical cohesion; topic segmentation.