INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT, cilt.43, sa.6, ss.1705-1714, 2007 (SCI-Expanded)
Keywords can be considered as condensed versions of documents and short forms of their summaries. In this paper, the problem of automatic extraction of keywords from documents is treated as a supervised learning task. A lexical chain holds a set of semantically related words of a text and it can be said that a lexical chain represents the semantic content of a portion of the text. Although lexical chains have been extensively used in text summarization, their usage for keyword extraction problem has not been fully investigated. In this paper, a keyword extraction technique that uses lexical chains is described, and encouraging results are obtained. (C) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.