The Fractal Patterns of Words in a Text: A Method for Automatic Keyword Extraction.

A text can be considered as a one dimensional array of words. The locations of each word type in this array form a fractal pattern with certain fractal dimension. We observe that important words responsible for conveying the meaning of a text have dimensions considerably different from one, while th...

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Main Authors: Elham Najafi, Amir H Darooneh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4474631?pdf=render