Supervised Learning of Keyphrase Extraction Utilizing Prior Summarization

Keyphrase extraction is the task of selecting a set of phrases that can best represent a given document. Keyphrase extraction is utilized in document indexing and categorization, thus being one of core technologies of digital libraries. Supervised keyphrase extraction based on pretrained language models are advantageous thorough their contextualized text representations. In this paper, we show an adaptation of the pertained language model BERT to keyphrase extraction, called BERT Keyphrase-Rank (BK-Rank), based on a cross-encoder architecture. However, the accuracy of BK-Rank alone is suffering when documents contain a large amount of candidate phrases, especially in long documents. Based on the notion that keyphrases are more likely to occur in representative sentences of the document, we propose a new approach called Keyphrase-Focused BERT Summarization (KFBS), which extracts important sentences as a summary, from which BK-Rank can more easily find keyphrases. Training of KFBS is by distant supervision such that sentences lexically similar to the keyphrase set are chosen as positive samples. Our experimental results show that the combination of KFBS + BK-Rank show superior performance over the compared baseline methods on well-known four benchmark collections, especially on long documents.