Term Extraction Service Available (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)

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YDN YDN Blog Term Extraction Service Available

Yahoo! Developer Network Blog

March 31, 2005

Term Extraction Service Available

Our new term extraction service analyzes text and an optional query, returning a list of the key concepts from the text.

You can use the service for a variety of different purposes. For example, Y!Q uses it to determine key concepts within the search context and then uses those terms for augmenting a user's search query.

There are more cool things you can do with this, and we're hoping to see many interesting applications that use the term extraction service. For example, a publisher might use the service to extract key concepts from an article (e.g., a blog post). The publisher could then use this information to highlight those terms in the text and make them clickable, or even insert Y!Q at those points.

Let us know what you end up building with this service...

Reiner Kraft
Technical Yahoo!

Posted at March 31, 2005 4:06 PM

Comments

Hmm, Could be very handy to hack something together like this http://37signals.com/better_google.php, shame you don't return the number of results for each term.

Posted by: Tom at April 4, 2005 4:02 PM

Is http://api.search.yahoo.com/ContentAnalysisService/V1/termExtraction.xsd online? I'm receiving a "page not found" error when I click on the link for this schema.
John

Posted by: John at April 9, 2005 8:40 AM

I'm also receiving a 404 error when going trying to access the Yahoo! Term Extraction tool. Has it been removed?

Posted by: Bill Hartzer at June 30, 2005 2:09 PM

Try this instead:
http://developer.yahoo.net/search/content/V1/termExtraction.html

Posted by: David at December 6, 2005 1:32 PM

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