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AKEA: An Arabic keyphrase extraction algorithm

  • Eslam Amer*
  • , Khaled Foad
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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    Abstract

    Keyphrase extraction is a critical step in many natural language processing and Information retrieval applications. In this paper, we introduce AKEA, a keyphrase extraction algorithm for single Arabic documents. AKEA is an unsupervised algorithm as it does not need any type of training in order to achieve its task. We rely on heuristics that collaborate linguistic patterns based on Part-Of-Speech (POS) tags, statistical knowledge, and the internal structural pattern of terms (i.e. word-occurrence). We employ the usage of Arabic Wikipedia to improve the ranking (or significance) of candidate keyphrases by adding a confidence score if the candidate exist as an indexed Wikipedia concept. Experimental results show that on average AKEA has the highest precision value, the highest F-measure value which indicates it presents more accurate results compared to its other algorithms.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics, 2016
    EditorsAboul Ella Hassanien, Khaled Shaalan, Ahmad Taher Azar, Tarek Gaber, Mohamed F. Tolba
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages137-146
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Electronic)9783319483085
    ISBN (Print)9783319483078
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 18 Oct 2016
    Event2nd International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics, AISI 2016 - Cairo, Egypt
    Duration: 24 Oct 201626 Oct 2016

    Publication series

    NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
    Volume533
    ISSN (Print)2194-5357

    Conference

    Conference2nd International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics, AISI 2016
    Country/TerritoryEgypt
    CityCairo
    Period24/10/1626/10/16

    Keywords

    • Keyphrase extraction
    • Natural language processing

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