AI RESEARCH
Paragraph Segmentation Revisited: Towards a Standard Task for Structuring Speech
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2512.24517v2 Announce Type: replace Automatic speech transcripts are often delivered as unstructured word streams that impede readability and repurposing. We recast paragraph segmentation as the missing structuring step and fill three gaps at the intersection of speech processing and text segmentation. First, we establish TEDPara (human-annotated TED talks) and YTSegPara (YouTube videos with synthetic labels) as the first benchmarks for the paragraph segmentation task.