18. The system of claim 17 wherein the system is enabled to perform the operation of performing the statistical analysis on the text-based terms to identify the distribution by performing an operation comprising, for a given text-based term, identifying a location range of where the given text-based term can be found in the document based on detecting a first occurrence of the given text-based term and a last occurrence of the given text-based term in the document.
17. A computer system comprising: a processor; a memory unit that stores instructions associated with an application executed by the processor; and an interconnect coupling the processor and the memory unit, enabling the computer system to execute the application and perform operations comprising: receiving a collection of text-based terms associated with a document; performing a statistical analysis on the text-based terms to identify a distribution of the text-based terms in the document, wherein the statistical analysis uses one or more locations at which the text-based terms appear in the document; and providing representative terms for association with the document, wherein the representative terms are identified by identifying which of the text-based terms are most representative of the document based on the distribution of the text-based terms in the document.