An Improved Corpus-Based NLP Method for Facilitating Keyword Extraction: An Example of the COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Corpus

Liang-Ching Chen ()
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Liang-Ching Chen: Department of Foreign Languages, R.O.C. Military Academy, Kaohsiung 830, Taiwan

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-19

Abstract: In the current COVID-19 post-pandemic era, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy is hindering the herd immunity generated by widespread vaccination. It is critical to identify the factors that may cause COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy, enabling the relevant authorities to propose appropriate interventions for mitigating such a phenomenon. Keyword extraction, a sub-field of natural language processing (NLP) applications, plays a vital role in modern medical informatics. When traditional corpus-based NLP methods are used to conduct keyword extraction, they only consider a word’s log-likelihood value to determine whether it is a keyword, which leaves room for concerns about the efficiency and accuracy of this keyword extraction technique. These concerns include the fact that the method is unable to (1) optimize the keyword list by the machine-based approach, (2) effectively evaluate the keyword’s importance level, and (3) integrate the variables to conduct data clustering. Thus, to address the aforementioned issues, this study integrated a machine-based word removal technique, the i10-index, and the importance–performance analysis (IPA) technique to develop an improved corpus-based NLP method for facilitating keyword extraction. The top 200 most-cited Science Citation Index (SCI) research articles discussing COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy were adopted as the target corpus for verification. The results showed that the keywords of Quadrant I ( n = 98) reached the highest lexical coverage (9.81%), indicating that the proposed method successfully identified and extracted the most important keywords from the target corpus, thus achieving more domain-oriented and accurate keyword extraction results.

Keywords: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy; keyword extraction; natural language processing (NLP); medical informatics; corpus; i10-index; importance–performance analysis (IPA) method (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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