Analysis of OWA operators for automatic keyphrase extraction in a semantic context

Abstract

Automatic keyphrase extraction from texts is useful for many computational systems in the fields of natural language processing and text mining. Although a number of solutions to this problem have been described, semantic analysis is one of the least exploited linguistic features in the most widely-known proposals, causing the results obtained to have low accuracy and performance rates. This paper presents an unsupervised method for keyphrase extraction, based on the use of lexico-syntactic patterns for extracting information from texts, and a fuzzy topic modeling. An OWA operator combining several semantic measures was applied to the topic modeling process. This new approach was evaluated with Inspec and 500N-KPCrowd datasets. Several approaches within our proposal were evaluated against each other. A statistical analysis was performed to substantiate the best approach of the proposal. This best approach was also compared with other reported systems, giving promising results.