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Classification Society of North America - http://www.classification-society.org/csna/csna.html
Scientific organization studying classification and clustering, including systematic methods for creating classification schemes from unstructured data. |
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DELTA: Description Language for Taxonomy - http://www.delta-intkey.com/
A flexible format for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing, intended for biology but with broad applications. It can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, classifications, and information-retrieval systems. |
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International Federation of Classification Societies - http://www.classification-society.org/
A federation of national, regional, and linguistically-based classification societies whose aims are to further knowledge classification research. |
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Taxonomy Warehouse - http://www.taxonomywarehouse.com
Directory of taxonomies, thesauri, classification schemes, and other authority files, plus information on how to license the taxonomies. Features search, browse and alert service. |
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Flamenco Project - http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco.html
Investigates how to effectively incorporate large, faceted category hierarchies into information access user interfaces. |
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Controlled Vocabulary - http://www.controlledvocabulary.com/
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. |
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Project Aristotle - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Aristotle.htm
Projects, research, products and services investigating or demonstrating automated Web categorization. Some prototypes and demos are available. |
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ASIST Special Interest Group - Classification Research - http://www.asis.org/AboutASIS/asis-sigs.html#SIGCR
Studies the fundamental principles, underlying processes, and analytic constructs of classification schemes and procedures by humans or automata. |
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Taxonomies Are What? - http://www.freepint.com/issues/041001.htm#feature
Describes the use of taxonomies to organize information on the Web. |
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Automatic Categorization of Magazine Articles - http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/infwet99/proceedings/moens.html
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. |
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Delphi Group Taxonomy and Content Classification Report - http://www.delphigroup.com/coverage/taxonomy.htm
Examines software segment for taxonomy management. |
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Managing Taxonomies Strategically - http://www.montague.com/abstracts/taxonomy3.html
Brief article focused on helping knowledge base publishers understand how taxonomies work and how to implement them. Features related articles. |
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Ontological Engineering - http://ontology.buffalo.edu/engineering.htm
About two dozen links collected by the ontology project at the philosophy department of the State University of New York at Buffalo, with emphasis on artificial intelligence and the Internet. |
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Crosstraining: Learning probabilistic mappings between topics - http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/~shantanu/work/scg-kdd03.pdf
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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Organizational Theory Bibliography - http://argus-acia.com/ia_guide/subject/organizational_theory.html
Annotated list of works on classification theory, classification systems, controlled vocabularies, indexing, index design, thesaurus design, and library and information science. |