2018/08/10 by Eirini Papagiannopoulou, Grigorios Tsoumakas, Papagiannopoulou, Eirini +1
Computer Science · #Advanced Text Analysis Techniques #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1808.03712
openalex publication_date 2018/08/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We propose a novel unsupervised keyphrase extraction approach that filters candidate keywords using outlier detection. It starts by training word embeddings on the target document to capture semantic regularities among the words. It then uses the minimum covariance determinant estimator to model the distribution of non-keyphrase word vectors, under the assumption that these vectors come from the same distribution, indicative of their irrelevance to the semantics expressed by the dimensions of the learned vector representation. Candidate keyphrases only consist of words that are detected as outliers of this dominant distribution. Empirical results show that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art and recent unsupervised keyphrase extraction methods.