Taxonomies and Content Governance

July 5, 2010 — In the 1980s, commercial database producers had an editorial policy. I recall reading the Courier Journal / Data Courier description of the editorial policy for the original ABI/INFORM business database. (Disclosure: Access Innovations was an advisor to the Courier Journal’s commercial database operation.) The idea was that subject matter experts and…

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Semantic Taxonomy Induction

“Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogeneous Evidence” became available in 2006. It was one of the first presentations of a method that is apparently becoming increasingly important at a certain large Web search company.

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