Enhancing keyphrase extraction from academic articles using section structure information

Chengzhi Zhang (), Xinyi Yan, Lei Zhao and Yingyi Zhang
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Chengzhi Zhang: Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Xinyi Yan: Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Lei Zhao: Nanjing University of Science and Technology
Yingyi Zhang: Soochow University

Scientometrics, 2025, vol. 130, issue 4, No 12, 2343 pages

Abstract: Abstract The exponential increase in academic papers has significantly increased the time required for researchers to access relevant literature. Keyphrase extraction (KPE) offers a solution to this situation by enabling researchers to efficiently retrieve relevant literature. The current study on KPE from academic articles aims to improve the performance of extraction models through innovative approaches using Title and Abstract as input corpora. However, the semantic richness of keywords is significantly constrained by the length of the abstract. While full-text-based KPE can address this issue, it simultaneously introduces noise, which significantly diminishes KPE performance. To address this issue, this paper utilized the structural features and section texts obtained from the section structure information of academic articles to extract keyphrase from academic papers. The approach consists of two main parts: (1) exploring the effect of seven structural features on KPE models, and (2) integrating the extraction results from all section texts used as input corpora for KPE models via a keyphrase integration algorithm to obtain the keyphrase integration result. Furthermore, this paper also examined the effect of the classification quality of section structure on the KPE performance. The results show that incorporating structural features improves KPE performance, though different features have varying effects on model efficacy. The keyphrase integration approach yields the best performance, and the classification quality of section structure can affect KPE performance. These findings indicate that using the section structure information of academic articles contributes to effective KPE from academic articles. The code and dataset supporting this study are available at https://github.com/yan-xinyi/SSB_KPE .

Keywords: Keyphrase extraction; Section structure information; Academic articles; Integration algorithm (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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