Keyphrase extraction is a technique in text analysis where you extract the important keyphrases from a document. Thanks to these keyphrases humans can understand the content of a text very quickly and easily without reading it completely. Keyphrase extraction was first done primarily by human annotators, who read the text in detail and then wrote down the most important keyphrases. The disadvantage is that if you work with a lot of documents, this process can take a lot of time ⏳.

Here is where Artificial Intelligence 🤖 comes in. Currently, classical machine learning methods, that use statistical and linguistic features, are widely used for the extraction process. Now with deep learning, it is possible to capture the semantic meaning of a text even better than these classical methods. Classical methods look at the frequency, occurrence and order of words in the text, whereas these neural approaches can capture long-term semantic dependencies and context of words in a text.

📓 Model Description

This model uses KBIR as its base model and fine-tunes it on the semeval2017 dataset. KBIR or Keyphrase Boundary Infilling with Replacement is a pre-trained model which utilizes a multi-task learning setup for optimizing a combined loss of Masked Language Modeling (MLM), Keyphrase Boundary Infilling (KBI) and Keyphrase Replacement Classification (KRC). You can find more information about the architecture in this paper.

Keyphrase extraction models are transformer models fine-tuned as a token classification problem where each word in the document is classified as being part of a keyphrase or not.

Label	Description
B-KEY	At the beginning of a keyphrase
I-KEY	Inside a keyphrase
O	Outside a keyphrase

✋ Intended Uses & Limitations

🛑 Limitations

This keyphrase extraction model is very domain-specific and will perform very well on abstracts of scientific articles. It's not recommended to use this model for other domains, but you are free to test it out.
Limited amount of predicted keyphrases.
Only works for English documents.

❓ How To Use

python

from transformers import (
    TokenClassificationPipeline,
    AutoModelForTokenClassification,
    AutoTokenizer,
)
from transformers.pipelines import AggregationStrategy
import numpy as np

# Define keyphrase extraction pipeline
class KeyphraseExtractionPipeline(TokenClassificationPipeline):
    def __init__(self, model, *args, **kwargs):
        super().__init__(
            model=AutoModelForTokenClassification.from_pretrained(model),
            tokenizer=AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model),
            *args,
            **kwargs
        )

    def postprocess(self, all_outputs):
        results = super().postprocess(
            all_outputs=all_outputs,
            aggregation_strategy=AggregationStrategy.SIMPLE,
        )
        return np.unique([result.get("word").strip() for result in results])

python

# Load pipeline
model_name = "ml6team/keyphrase-extraction-kbir-semeval2017"
extractor = KeyphraseExtractionPipeline(model=model_name)

python

# Inference
text = """
Keyphrase extraction is a technique in text analysis where you extract the
important keyphrases from a document. Thanks to these keyphrases humans can
understand the content of a text very quickly and easily without reading it
completely. Keyphrase extraction was first done primarily by human annotators,
who read the text in detail and then wrote down the most important keyphrases.
The disadvantage is that if you work with a lot of documents, this process
can take a lot of time. 

Here is where Artificial Intelligence comes in. Currently, classical machine
learning methods, that use statistical and linguistic features, are widely used
for the extraction process. Now with deep learning, it is possible to capture
the semantic meaning of a text even better than these classical methods.
Classical methods look at the frequency, occurrence and order of words
in the text, whereas these neural approaches can capture long-term
semantic dependencies and context of words in a text.
""".replace("\n", " ")

keyphrases = extractor(text)

print(keyphrases)

# Output
['artificial intelligence']

📚 Training Dataset

Semeval2017 is a keyphrase extraction/generation dataset consisting of 500 English scientific paper abstracts from the ScienceDirect open access publications. from NY Times and 10K from JPTimes and annotated by professional indexers or editors. The selected articles were evenly distributed among the domains of Computer Science, Material Sciences and Physics. Each paper has a set of keyphrases annotated by student volunteers. Each paper was double-annotated, where the second annotation was done by an expert annotator.

You can find more information in the paper.

👷‍♂️ Training procedure

Training parameters

Parameter	Value
Learning Rate	1e-4
Epochs	50
Early Stopping Patience	3

Preprocessing

The documents in the dataset are already preprocessed into list of words with the corresponding labels. The only thing that must be done is tokenization and the realignment of the labels so that they correspond with the right subword tokens.

python

from datasets import load_dataset
from transformers import AutoTokenizer

# Labels
label_list = ["B", "I", "O"]
lbl2idx = {"B": 0, "I": 1, "O": 2}
idx2label = {0: "B", 1: "I", 2: "O"}

# Tokenizer
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("bloomberg/KBIR")
max_length = 512

# Dataset parameters
dataset_full_name = "midas/semeval2017"
dataset_subset = "raw"
dataset_document_column = "document"
dataset_biotags_column = "doc_bio_tags"

def preprocess_fuction(all_samples_per_split):
    tokenized_samples = tokenizer.batch_encode_plus(
        all_samples_per_split[dataset_document_column],
        padding="max_length",
        truncation=True,
        is_split_into_words=True,
        max_length=max_length,
    )
    total_adjusted_labels = []
    for k in range(0, len(tokenized_samples["input_ids"])):
        prev_wid = -1
        word_ids_list = tokenized_samples.word_ids(batch_index=k)
        existing_label_ids = all_samples_per_split[dataset_biotags_column][k]
        i = -1
        adjusted_label_ids = []

        for wid in word_ids_list:
            if wid is None:
                adjusted_label_ids.append(lbl2idx["O"])
            elif wid != prev_wid:
                i = i + 1
                adjusted_label_ids.append(lbl2idx[existing_label_ids[i]])
                prev_wid = wid
            else:
                adjusted_label_ids.append(
                    lbl2idx[
                        f"{'I' if existing_label_ids[i] == 'B' else existing_label_ids[i]}"
                    ]
                )

        total_adjusted_labels.append(adjusted_label_ids)
    tokenized_samples["labels"] = total_adjusted_labels
    return tokenized_samples

# Load dataset
dataset = load_dataset(dataset_full_name, dataset_subset)

# Preprocess dataset
tokenized_dataset = dataset.map(preprocess_fuction, batched=True)
    

Postprocessing (Without Pipeline Function)

If you do not use the pipeline function, you must filter out the B and I labeled tokens. Each B and I will then be merged into a keyphrase. Finally, you need to strip the keyphrases to make sure all unnecessary spaces have been removed.

python

# Define post_process functions
def concat_tokens_by_tag(keyphrases):
    keyphrase_tokens = []
    for id, label in keyphrases:
        if label == "B":
            keyphrase_tokens.append([id])
        elif label == "I":
            if len(keyphrase_tokens) > 0:
                keyphrase_tokens[len(keyphrase_tokens) - 1].append(id)
    return keyphrase_tokens


def extract_keyphrases(example, predictions, tokenizer, index=0):
    keyphrases_list = [
        (id, idx2label[label])
        for id, label in zip(
            np.array(example["input_ids"]).squeeze().tolist(), predictions[index]
        )
        if idx2label[label] in ["B", "I"]
    ]

    processed_keyphrases = concat_tokens_by_tag(keyphrases_list)
    extracted_kps = tokenizer.batch_decode(
        processed_keyphrases,
        skip_special_tokens=True,
        clean_up_tokenization_spaces=True,
    )
    return np.unique([kp.strip() for kp in extracted_kps])

📝 Evaluation Results

Traditional evaluation methods are the precision, recall and F1-score @k,m where k is the number that stands for the first k predicted keyphrases and m for the average amount of predicted keyphrases. The model achieves the following results on the Semeval2017 test set:

Dataset	P@5	R@5	F1@5	P@10	R@10	F1@10	P@M	R@M	F1@M
Semeval2017 Test Set	0.41	0.20	0.25	0.37	0.34	0.34	0.36	0.50	0.40

🚨 Issues

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