1. A computer-based media material analyzer for analyzing data representative of media material having a layout and including one or more continuing articles that extend across multiple pages, comprising: (a) a computer-based segmenter that identifies block segments associated with columnar body text in the media material pages; and (b) a computer-based article composer that determines which of the identified block segments belong to a continuing article extending across multiple pages in the media material based on language statistics information and continuation transition information.