Classification

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Software (15)

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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.

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.

Classification Society

http://thames.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~fionn/classification-society/

Scientific organization studying classification and clustering, including systematic methods for creating classification schemes from unstructured data. Tied to Class-L list maintained at State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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.

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.

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.

Flamenco Project

http://bailando.sims.berkeley.edu/flamenco.html

Investigates how to effectively incorporate large, faceted category hierarchies into information access user interfaces.

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.

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.

MeURLin: URL-based Classification of Web Pages

http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/meurlin/

Project that attempts to classify web pages based solely on their URL. A functional demo is included.

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.

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.

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.

Taxonomies Are What?

http://www.freepint.com/issues/041001.htm#feature

Describes the use of taxonomies to organize information on the Web.

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.