2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151184We predict discourse segment boundaries from linguistic features of utterances, using a corpus of spoken narratives as data. We present two methods for developing segmentation algorithms from training data: hand tuning and machine learning. When multiple types of features are used, results approach human performance on an independent test set (both methods), and using cross-validation (machine learning).8 pages. Self-contained latex source. To appear in Proceedings of the 33rd ACL, 1995. (This replacement version revised so that no lines exceed 80 characters.)Computation and Languagetext