Delphi Group Taxonomy and Content Classification Report - Examines software segment for taxonomy management.
Flamenco Project - Investigates how to effectively incorporate large, faceted category hierarchies into information access user interfaces.
Taxonomies Are What? - Describes the use of taxonomies to organize information on the Web.
Taxonomy: Creating Knowledge from Chaos - Brief overview of taxonomies and their use in organizing information on the Internet.
Online Taxonomies: The Next Shift for Information Science - Briefly discusses the use of taxonomies in organizing unstructured data.
Automatic Categorization of Magazine Articles - Research paper discussing automatic categorization of magazine articles with broad subject descriptors. Focuses upon the following aspects of text classification: effective selection of feature words and proper names that reflect the main topics of the text, and training of text classifiers.
Controlled Vocabulary - Describes how controlled vocabularies are useful in describing images and information for classifying content in electronic databases. Links to sample hierarchies and controlled vocabularies. Also features links to related resources.
Organizational Theory Bibliography - Annotated list of works on classification theory, classification systems, controlled vocabularies, indexing, index design, thesaurus design, and library and information science.
Content Wire: Taxonomies - Links to articles on using taxonomies in knowledge organization.
International Federation of Classification Societies - A federation of national, regional, and linguistically-based classification societies whose aims are to further knowledge classification research.
ASIST Special Interest Group - Classification Research - Studies the fundamental principles, underlying processes, and analytic constructs of classification schemes and procedures by humans or automata.
Taxonomy Warehouse - Directory of taxonomies, thesauri, classification schemes, and other authority files, plus information on how to license the taxonomies. Features search, browse and alert service.
Managing Taxonomies Strategically - Brief article focused on helping knowledge base publishers understand how taxonomies work and how to implement them. Features related articles.
MeURLin: URL-based Classification of Web Pages - Project that attempts to classify web pages based solely on their URL. A functional demo is included.
Classification Society of North America - Scientific organization studying classification and clustering, including systematic methods for creating classification schemes from unstructured data.
Crosstraining: Learning probabilistic mappings between topics - Introduces a general semi-supervised learning framework called cross-training which can exploit knowledge about label assignments in one taxonomy B to make better inferences about label assignments in another taxonomy A.
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