| Project Aristotle - Projects, research, products and services investigating or demonstrating automated Web categorization. Some prototypes and demos are available.
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| Delphi Group Taxonomy and Content Classification Report - Examines software segment for taxonomy management.
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| Classification Society of North America - Scientific organization studying classification and clustering, including systematic methods for creating classification schemes from unstructured data.
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| The Scorpion Project - Project of the OCLC Office of Research exploring the indexing and cataloging of electronic resources.
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| Practical Issues for Automated Categorization of Web Sites - Research paper discussing several issues related to automated text classification of web sites. Includes bibliography. By John M. Pierre.
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| Flamenco Project - Investigates how to effectively incorporate large, faceted category hierarchies into information access user interfaces.
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| Taxonomies Are What? - Describes the use of taxonomies to organize information on the Web.
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| Taxonomy: Creating Knowledge from Chaos - Brief overview of taxonomies and their use in organizing information on the Internet.
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| Word Wranglers - Surveys the rapidly changing automatic classification software market and examine the features and capabilities of leading classification products.
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| Online Taxonomies: The Next Shift for Information Science - Briefly discusses the use of taxonomies in organizing unstructured data.
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| Automatic Categorization of Magazine Articles - 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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| Controlled Vocabulary - 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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| Organizational Theory Bibliography - Annotated list of works on classification theory, classification systems, controlled vocabularies, indexing, index design, thesaurus design, and library and information science.
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| Content Wire: Taxonomies - Links to articles on using taxonomies in knowledge organization.
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| Practical Taxonomies - Examines the use and implementation of taxonomies to organize organizational knowledge and data.
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| International Federation of Classification Societies - A federation of national, regional, and linguistically-based classification societies whose aims are to further knowledge classification research.
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| ASIST Special Interest Group - Classification Research - Studies the fundamental principles, underlying processes, and analytic constructs of classification schemes and procedures by humans or automata.
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| Snowfox - Provides a web directory where links associated with a topic are placed by automatic text categorization. Includes a description of the Snowfox Relevance Engine, a white paper that can be requested on directories and an article on ten miscategorization errors.
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| Taxonomy Warehouse - 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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| Managing Taxonomies Strategically - Brief article focused on helping knowledge base publishers understand how taxonomies work and how to implement them. Features related articles.
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| EncycloZine: Content Classification Schemes - Discusses the limitations of traditional library and content classification schemes to organizing information in an electronic environment.
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| MeURLin: URL-based Classification of Web Pages - Project that attempts to classify web pages based solely on their URL. A functional demo is included.
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