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Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Abstract

In this study, we describe a keyword extraction technique that uses latent semantic analysis (LSA) to identify semantically important single topic words or keywords. We compare our method against two other automated keyword extractors, Tf-idf (term frequency-inverse document frequency) and Metamap, using human-annotated keywords as a reference. Our results suggest that the LSA-based keyword extraction method performs comparably to the other techniques. Therefore, in an incremental update setting, the LSA-based keyword extraction method can be preferably used to extract keywords from text descriptions from big data when compared to existing keyword extraction methods.

DOI

10.3906/elk-1511-203

Keywords

Bioinformatics, text mining, information retrieval

First Page

1784

Last Page

1794

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