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Segmenting Oral History Transcripts

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Abstract

Dividing oral histories into topically coherent segments can make them more accessible online. People regularly make judgments about where coherent segments can be extracted from oral histories. But when different people are asked to extract coherent segments from the same oral histories, they often do not agree about where such segments begin and end.

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Footnotes
1
All of the data and code discussed in this paper are available at https://​github.​com/​contours.
 
2
The complete text of the instructions provided to the annotators is available at https://​github.​com/​contours/​segment/​blob/​5404fce/​public/​instructions.​html.
 
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Metadata
Title
Segmenting Oral History Transcripts
Author
Ryan Shaw
Copyright Year
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_27

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