Automatic Keyword Extraction from Dravidian Language

Abstract

Keywords are significant words in a document that gives description of its content to the reader. They provide the summary of a document. Now a days the amount of electronic text increases rapidly in all the languages. So the text mining applications take the advantage of keywords for processing documents. There are few proposed methods for keyword extraction. But not much work has been done in keyword extraction for Indian languages. With exponential increase in the information in Indian languages on the web, automatic information processing and retrieval become an urgent need. Text Mining is essential for knowledge discovery from valuable texts available in many Indian languages. This paper introduces a method, which extracts the keywords from Dravidian languages of India like Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada. We made an attempt to extract the keywords by using words statistics of a documen