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An Automatic Text Classification Method Based on Hierarchical Taxonomies, Neural Networks and Document Embedding: The NETHIC Tool

Artificial Intelligence 2026-03-13 v1 Computation and Language

Abstract

This work describes an automatic text classification method implemented in a software tool called NETHIC, which takes advantage of the inner capabilities of highly-scalable neural networks combined with the expressiveness of hierarchical taxonomies. As such, NETHIC succeeds in bringing about a mechanism for text classification that proves to be significantly effective as well as efficient. The tool had undergone an experimentation process against both a generic and a domain-specific corpus, outputting promising results. On the basis of this experimentation, NETHIC has been now further refined and extended by adding a document embedding mechanism, which has shown improvements in terms of performance on the individual networks and on the whole hierarchical model.

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@article{arxiv.2603.11770,
  title  = {An Automatic Text Classification Method Based on Hierarchical Taxonomies, Neural Networks and Document Embedding: The NETHIC Tool},
  author = {Luigi Lomasto and Rosario Di Florio and Andrea Ciapetti and Giuseppe Miscione and Giulia Ruggiero and Daniele Toti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.11770},
  year   = {2026}
}

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