With a Little Help from my (Linguistic) Friends: Topic Segmentation of Multi-party Casual Conversations

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Main Authors:	Decker, Amandine, Amblard, Maxime
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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