def keyword_tokenize(text_string):
    '''
    Extracts keywords from text_string using NLTK's list of English stopwords, ignoring words of a
    length smaller than 3, and returns the new string as type str.

    Keyword argument:

    - text_string: string instance

    Exceptions raised:

    - InputError: occurs should a non-string argument be passed
    '''
    if text_string is None or text_string == "":
        return ""
    elif isinstance(text_string, str):
        return " ".join([word for word in KEYWORD_TOKENIZER.tokenize(text_string) if word not in STOPWORDS and len(word) >= 3])
    else:
        raise InputError("string not passed as argument for text_string")
Extracts keywords from text_string using NLTK's list of English stopwords, ignoring words of a
    length smaller than 3, and returns the new string as type str.

    Keyword argument:

    - text_string: string instance

    Exceptions raised:

    - InputError: occurs should a non-string argument be passed