Advancing Topic Segmentation and Outline Generation in Chinese Texts: The Paragraph-level Topic Representation, Corpus, and Benchmark (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Compared with sentence-level topic structure, paragraph-level topics can grasp and understand the context of a document from a higher level. |
| Approach: | They propose a hierarchical paragraph-level topic structure representation with three layers to guide corpus construction. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves the largest Chinese paragraph-level topic structure corpus, achieving high quality. |
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