Keyword Detection Techniques: A Comprehensive Study

Automatic identification of influential segments from a large amount of data is an important part of topic detection and tracking (TDT). This can be done using keyword identification via collocation techniques, word co-occurrence networks, topic modeling and other machine learning techniques. This paper reviews existing traditional keyword extraction techniques and analyzes them to make useful insights and to give future directions for better automatic, unsupervised and language independent research. The paper reviews extant literature on existing traditional TDT approaches for automatic identification of influential segments from a large amount of data in keyword detection task. The current keyword detection techniques used by researchers have been discussed. Inferences have been drawn from current keyword detection techniques used by researchers, their advantages and disadvantages over the previous studies and the analysis results have been provided in tabular form. Although keyword detection has been widely explored, there is still a large scope and need for identifying topics from the uncertain user-generated data.