INESC TEC team wins another Best Paper Award

The paper entitled “A Text Feature Based Automatic Keyword Extraction Method for Single Documents” by Ricardo Campos, Vitor Mangaravite, Arian Pasquali and Alípio M. Jorge, researchers from INESC TEC’s Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Laboratory (LIAAD), by Célia Nunes, from the University of Beira Interior (UBI), and by Adam Jatowt from Kyoto University, won the ECIR 2018 Best Short Paper Award, promoted by the 40th European Conference on Information Retrieval.

The winning paper is available here https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_63. It introduces innovative results within the keyword extraction from texts through a new system for keyword extraction (YAKE). This system offers a better performance when compared with the existing methods. A demonstration of YAKE is available here https://boiling-castle-88317.herokuapp.com/.

ECIR 2018, which was held from 26 until 29 of March in France, is the main European forum for the presentation of new research results in the field of Information Retrieval. This edition was attended by approximately 300 researchers.

The researchers mentioned in this news piece are associated with INESC TEC, UP-FCUP and IPT.