Our new term extraction service analyzes text and an optional query, returning a list of the key concepts from the text.

You can use the service for a variety of different purposes. For example, Y!Q uses it to determine key concepts within the search context and then uses those terms for augmenting a user's search query.

There are more cool things you can do with this, and we're hoping to see many interesting applications that use the term extraction service. For example, a publisher might use the service to extract key concepts from an article (e.g., a blog post). The publisher could then use this information to highlight those terms in the text and make them clickable, or even insert Y!Q at those points.

Let us know what you end up building with this service...

Reiner Kraft
Technical Yahoo!