| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 57, Number 5, March 2002
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 759 - 764 | |
| Section | Interdisciplinary physics and related areas of science and technology | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2002-00528-3 | |
| Published online | 01 September 2002 | |
Keyword detection in natural languages and DNA
1
Departamento de Física, Universidad de
Murcia - Murcia, Spain
2
Departamento de Física Aplicada II, ETSI de Telecomunicación
Universidad de Málaga - Málaga, Spain
3
Facultad de Documentación, Universidad de Murcia - Murcia, Spain
Received:
20
July
2001
Accepted:
30
November
2001
We show that words in a text present long-range frequency fluctuations due to a strong self-attraction, that is directly related to the relevance of the term to the text considered. The standard deviation of the distance between successive occurrences of a word is an excellent parameter to quantify this self-attraction, and provides us with an effective tool for automatic keyword extraction. DNA sequences also present the same features: “words”, for example codons in the coding part of the sequences, attract between themselves.
PACS: 89.20.-a – Interdisciplinary applications of physics / 89.70.+c – Information science
© EDP Sciences, 2002
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