Text Segmentation is Subjective: Empirical Evidence of Human Variability and its Implications for Downstream Tasks

Sophia Conrad; Florian Frenken

Text Segmentation is Subjective: Empirical Evidence of Human Variability and its Implications for Downstream Tasks

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Volume:: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026)
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Address:: University of Trento, Trento, Italy
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[Text Segmentation is Subjective: Empirical Evidence of Human Variability and its Implications for Downstream Tasks](https://aclanthology.org/2026.icnlsp-1.21/) (Conrad & Frenken, ICNLSP 2026)

Text Segmentation is Subjective: Empirical Evidence of Human Variability and its Implications for Downstream Tasks (Conrad & Frenken, ICNLSP 2026)

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Sophia Conrad and Florian Frenken. 2026. Text Segmentation is Subjective: Empirical Evidence of Human Variability and its Implications for Downstream Tasks. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP-2026), pages 216–222, University of Trento, Trento, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.