Steve Skiena

2 accepted papers

2022

Chapter Ordering in Novels

EMNLP 2022main

Understanding narrative flow and text coherence in long-form documents (novels) remains an open problem in NLP.To gain insight, we explore the task of chapter ordering, reconstructing the original order of chapters in novel given a random permutation of the text. This can be seen as extending the we…

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2021

Cleaning Dirty Books: Post-OCR Processing for Previously Scanned Texts

Allen Kim, Charuta Pethe, Naoya Inoue, Steve Skiena

EMNLP 2021finding

Substantial amounts of work are required to clean large collections of digitized books for NLP analysis, both because of the presence of errors in the scanned text and the presence of duplicate volumes in the corpora. In this paper, we consider the issue of deduplication in the presence of optical c…

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