https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00206-x
Statistical keyword detection in literary corpora
Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, X5000, HUA Córdoba, Argentina
Corresponding authors: a juan.herrera@intel.com - b pury@famaf.unc.edu.ar
Received:
1
May
2007
Revised:
15
February
2008
Published online:
30
May
2008
Understanding the complexity of human language requires an appropriate analysis of the statistical distribution of words in texts. We consider the information retrieval problem of detecting and ranking the relevant words of a text by means of statistical information referring to the spatial use of the words. Shannon's entropy of information is used as a tool for automatic keyword extraction. By using The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin as a representative text sample, we show the performance of our detector and compare it with another proposals in the literature. The random shuffled text receives special attention as a tool for calibrating the ranking indices.
PACS: 89.70.+c – Information theory and communication theory / 05.45.Tp – Time series analysis / 89.75.-k – Complex systems
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 2008
