A novel text subject extraction method

Word segmentation or word extraction is always the first step of subject extraction. For no intervals between words, word segmentation of Chinese text is rather complicated. A novel text subject extraction method based on contextual cooccurrence is put forward, and an approach of extracting subject sentence from Chinese text using character contextual cooccurrence data is described. The new approach has fast speed and can skip the segmentation. It also can be applied in multistyle text. The result of three experiments shows that the approach gains high accuracy in multistyle text, 77.19% in news text. Comparative experiment shows that there was no loss in accuracy.