Hi,

> thanks for your reply, i'm actually looking for alternatives
> to kea. not that kea wouldn't work, but i don't like relying
> on one single extractor.

We have implemented a keyphrase extraction toolkit for scientific purposes 
using UIMA.
Details can be found in
http://www.ukp.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Group_UKP/publikationen/2009/ranlp09_camera_ready.pdf
The chart on page 4 gives a good overview.
 
> but if i understand your message right, uima itself can't be
> used as a keyphrase extractor (i was thinking so because of
> one of the demos) and the purpose of uima itself is slightly
> different, am i getting you right?

UIMA is a framework, so it is not a keyphrase extractor itself, but you can use 
to easily build different keyphrase extractors, as we did.

-Torsten

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