In this paper we introduce a dynamic programming algorithm to perform linear text segmentation by global minimization of a segmentation cost function which consists of: (a) within-segment word similarity and (b) prior information about segment length. The evaluation of the segmentation accuracy of the algorithm on Choi's text collection showed that the algorithm achieves the best segmentation accuracy so far reported in the literature.
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