Improving Topic Tracking with Domain Chaining Page: III
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CONTENTS
1 INTRODUCTION
2 TOPIC TRACKING
2.1 Topic Detection and Tracking . . . . . . .
2.2 TDT Terminology and Corpora . . . . . . .
2.3 TDT Evaluation Methodology . . . . . . .
2.4 Topic Tracking . ...............
2.4.1 Tracking using Lexical Chaining . . .
2.5 TREC 2002 Filtering Track . .........
2.5.1 Definitions and Evaluation . . . . . .
2.6 TDT and TREC Tracking ..........
3 ISSUES WITH EARLIER LEXICAL-CHAINING
3.1 Meaning of Text and Lexical Cohesion . . .
3.2 Definition of Lexical Chain ...........
3.3 A Generic Chaining Algorithm . . . . . . .
3.4 WordNet and the Chain Computing . . . . .
3.4.1 Computing Relatedness . . . . . .
3.4.2 Potential Problems ...........
3.5 Issues with Earlier Chainers .......
3.5.1 Stairmand's Chainer for IR ......
3.5.2 Greedy Chainers ...........ALGORITHMS
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Yang, Li. Improving Topic Tracking with Domain Chaining, thesis, August 2003; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4274/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .