Abstract
Hierarchical classifications are concept hierarchies used to organize large amounts of documents. File systems, products’ taxonomies for the market place and the directories provided by Web portals are common examples of hierarchical classifications. We propose a methodology for building a semantic interpretation of hierarchical classifications on the basis of the analysis of the taxonomic relations and the linguistic material they contain. We provide a formal semantics for hierarchical classifications and use it to interpret the implicit knowledge represented. Relevant phenomena addressed include the disambiguation of polysemous words, the semantics of multiwords, and the interpretation of coordinations. We report about experiments performed on the Web Directories of Google and Yahoo!.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Agrawal, R., Srikant, R.: On Integrating Catalogs. In: Proc. of the 10th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW-2001), Hong Kong, China (May 2001)
Baader, F., Nutt, W.: Description Logic Handbook, pp. 47–100. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Bergamaschi, S., Guerra, F., Vincini, M.: Product Classification Integration for E-Commerce. In: Proc. of WEBH-2002, 2nd International Workshop on Electronic Business Hubs. Aix En Provence, France (2002)
Bouquet, P., Magnini, B., Serafini, L., Zanobini, S.: A SAT–based Algorithm for Context Matching. In: Proc. of the 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (to appear)
Day, D.S., Vilain, M.B.: Phrase Parsing with Rule Sequence Processors: an Application to the Shared CoNLL Task. In: Proc. of CoNLL-2000 and LLL-2000, Lisbon, Portugal (September 2000)
Doan, A., Madhavan, J., Domingos, P., Halevy, A.: Learning to Map between Ontologies on the Semantic Web. In: Proc. of WWW-2002, 11th International World Wide Web Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii (May 2002)
Fellbaum, C. (ed.): WordNet: An Electronic Lexical Database. The MIT Press, Cambridge (1998)
Jacquemin, E., Morin, E.: Projecting Corpus-Based Semantic Links on a Thesaurus. In: Proc. of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Maryland (June 1999)
Resnik, P.: Semantic Similarity in a Taxonomy: An Information-Based Measure and its Application to Problems of Ambiguity in Natural Language. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 11 (2001)
Schulten, E., Akkermans, H., Botquin, G., Dörr, M., Guarino, N., Lopes, N., Sadeh, N.: Call for Participants: The E-Commerce Product Classification Challenge. IEEE Intelligent Systems, 16–4 (2001)
Serafini, L., Bouquet, P., Donà, A.: CTXML Context Markup Language. Technical report, ITC-irst (2002)
Woods, W.A.: Conceptual Indexing: A Better Way to Organize Knowledge. SUN Technical Report TR-97-61 (1997)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Magnini, B., Serafini, L., Speranza, M. (2003). Making Explicit the Hidden Semantics of Hierarchical Classifications. In: Cappelli, A., Turini, F. (eds) AI*IA 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2829. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39853-0_36
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-39853-0_36
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-20119-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-39853-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive