TY - JOUR AU - Baghdadi, Hossein Shahsavand AU - Ranaivo-Malançon, Bali PY - 2011 TI - An Automatic Topic Identification Algorithm JF - Journal of Computer Science VL - 7 IS - 9 DO - 10.3844/jcssp.2011.1363.1367 UR - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jcssp.2011.1363.1367 AB - Problem statement: Topic is a stream of words which stands for the content of a text. Knowing the topic of a document can help people to be aware from its content and facilitate their searching process. Approach: This paper proposes an automatic algorithm to identify the topic for a textual document based on the chunks corresponding to each sentences in the document. Results and conclusion: We achieved 86% matching for both total and partial matching in our experimental data sample.