INESCTEC/yake

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

YAKE! is a lightweight unsupervised keyword extraction library that ranks the most important keywords of a single document using text statistical features. It requires no training data, corpora, or dictionaries, and supports 25+ languages via a Python API and a command-line interface.

Use cases

• extract keywords from a single document
• get keyphrases from text without training data
• multilingual keyword extraction
• find top n-grams in an article
• tag documents automatically with keywords
• extract keywords from a text file from the command line

When to choose

• you need corpus- and dictionary-free keyword extraction that works out of the box
• you process single documents in many languages or domains
• you want a lightweight, fast statistical method rather than a heavy ML model

When to avoid

• you need state-of-the-art semantic keyphrase extraction from large trained models
• you need topic modeling or keyword extraction across an entire corpus
• you require a license other than LGPLv3

Facets

library · maturity stable

nlp parser machine-learning developer-tools python cli cross-platform keyword-extraction unsupervised multilingual single-document keyphrase-extraction natural-language-processing

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