Automated Taxonomy Discovery and Exploration

af Jiawei Han

This book provides a principled data-driven framework that progressively constructs, enriches, and applies taxonomies without leveraging massive human annotated data. Traditionally, people construct domain-specific taxonomies by extensive manual curations, which is time-consuming and costly. In today¿s information era, people are inundated with the vast amounts of text data. Despite their usefulness, people haven¿t yet exploited the full power of taxonomies due to the heavy curation needed for c... (Læs mere)