US Patent 11531811 Method and system for extracting keywords from text

Example implementations described herein involve extracting keywords and dependency information from a text; and generating a co-occurrence dictionary for the text, the generating the co-occurrence dictionary involving selecting ones of the keywords for inclusion in the co-occurrence dictionary based on a number of times the ones of the keywords satisfy the dependency rules; determining for the selected ones of the keywords included in the co-occurrence dictionary, surrounding words to be associated with the selected ones of the keywords in the co-occurrence dictionary based on a number of instances of co-occurrence of the surrounding words with the selected ones of the keywords; and generating weights for each of the selected ones of the keywords in the co-occurrence dictionary based on a number of the surrounding words associated with the selected ones of the keywords.