LOWBOW representations have also been applied to discourse segmentation (AMIDA, 2007) and have been suggested for text summarization (Das and Martins, 2007).
on average, the worse kernel was that based on the earth mover's distance (EMD), suggesting that the comparison of local histograms at different locations is not a fruitful approach (recall that this is the only kernel that compares local histograms at different locations).