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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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All of the data and code discussed in this paper are available at https://github.com/contours.
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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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This work was funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Thanks to the Southern Oral History Program for making the interview transcripts available and Kathy Brennan and Sara Mannheimer for their annotation work.
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Shaw, R. (2015). Segmenting Oral History Transcripts. In: Kapidakis, S., Mazurek, C., Werla, M. (eds) Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. TPDL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9316. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24592-8_27
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