How to identify tags (key words) automatically from a given text?

Question

It should behave like Delicious toolbar for Firefox does; it lists possible tags to click. The effect is shown as below:

The code should be able to find key words for the text. Any good algorithm or open source project to recommend?

I found this post, but it is a bit too general for my specific need.

Answer 1

I think you're looking for one of these answers,

• tag generation from a text content
• How to extract common / significant phrases from a series of text entries
• tag generation from a small text content (such as tweets)

In a nutshell - you're looking to extract unigrams from the text that somehow represent the concepts within it - a technique to do this is called Pointwise Mutual Information, which is illustrated with an example in the first two links. Using the Python NLTK framework (which already has a bunch of these algorithms built in) might be your best starting point to work off from.

Good luck!