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Taxonomies consist of machine-interpretable semantics and provide valuable knowledge for many web applications. For example, online retailers (e.g., Amazon and eBay) use taxonomies for product recommendation, and web search engines (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Jiaming Shen , Zhihong Shen , Chenyan Xiong , Chi Wang , Kuansan Wang , Jiawei Han

Taxonomy is a hierarchically structured knowledge graph that plays a crucial role in machine intelligence. The taxonomy expansion task aims to find a position for a new term in an existing taxonomy to capture the emerging knowledge in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Suyuchen Wang , Ruihui Zhao , Xi Chen , Yefeng Zheng , Bang Liu

Topic taxonomies display hierarchical topic structures of a text corpus and provide topical knowledge to enhance various NLP applications. To dynamically incorporate new topic information, several recent studies have tried to expand (or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Dongha Lee , Jiaming Shen , Seonghyeon Lee , Susik Yoon , Hwanjo Yu , Jiawei Han

Entity set expansion, taxonomy expansion, and seed-guided taxonomy construction are three representative tasks that can be applied to automatically populate an existing taxonomy with emerging concepts. Previous studies view them as three…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yanzhen Shen , Yu Zhang , Yunyi Zhang , Jiawei Han

Constructing taxonomies from citation graphs is essential for organizing scientific knowledge, facilitating literature reviews, and identifying emerging research trends. However, manual taxonomy construction is labor-intensive,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yuntong Hu , Zhuofeng Li , Zheng Zhang , Chen Ling , Raasikh Kanjiani , Boxin Zhao , Liang Zhao

Taxonomy construction is not only a fundamental task for semantic analysis of text corpora, but also an important step for applications such as information filtering, recommendation, and Web search. Existing pattern-based methods extract…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Chao Zhang , Fangbo Tao , Xiusi Chen , Jiaming Shen , Meng Jiang , Brian Sadler , Michelle Vanni , Jiawei Han

Given a small set of seed entities (e.g., ``USA'', ``Russia''), corpus-based set expansion is to induce an extensive set of entities which share the same semantic class (Country in this example) from a given corpus. Set expansion benefits a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jiaxin Huang , Yiqing Xie , Yu Meng , Jiaming Shen , Yunyi Zhang , Jiawei Han

We present SetExpander, a corpus-based system for expanding a seed set of terms into a more complete set of terms that belong to the same semantic class. SetExpander implements an iterative end-to end workflow for term set expansion. It…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Jonathan Mamou , Oren Pereg , Moshe Wasserblat , Ido Dagan , Yoav Goldberg , Alon Eirew , Yael Green , Shira Guskin , Peter Izsak , Daniel Korat

Taxonomies are valuable resources for many applications, but the limited coverage due to the expensive manual curation process hinders their general applicability. Prior works attempt to automatically expand existing taxonomies to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Mingyu Derek Ma , Muhao Chen , Te-Lin Wu , Nanyun Peng

Automatic construction of a taxonomy supports many applications in e-commerce, web search, and question answering. Existing taxonomy expansion or completion methods assume that new concepts have been accurately extracted and their embedding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Qingkai Zeng , Jinfeng Lin , Wenhao Yu , Jane Cleland-Huang , Meng Jiang

Taxonomy is not only a fundamental form of knowledge representation, but also crucial to vast knowledge-rich applications, such as question answering and web search. Most existing taxonomy construction methods extract hypernym-hyponym…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Jiaxin Huang , Yiqing Xie , Yu Meng , Yunyi Zhang , Jiawei Han

Taxonomies are important knowledge ontologies that underpin numerous applications on a daily basis, but many taxonomies used in practice suffer from the low coverage issue. We study the taxonomy expansion problem, which aims to expand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Yue Yu , Yinghao Li , Jiaming Shen , Hao Feng , Jimeng Sun , Chao Zhang

Taxonomies play a crucial role in helping researchers structure and navigate knowledge in a hierarchical manner. They also form an important part in the creation of comprehensive literature surveys. The existing approaches to automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Avishek Lahiri , Yufang Hou , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal

Taxonomies, which organize domain concepts into hierarchical structures, are crucial for building knowledge systems and downstream applications. As domain knowledge evolves, taxonomies need to be continuously updated to include new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Fei Xia , Yixuan Weng , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao

We propose a novel, semi-supervised approach towards domain taxonomy induction from an input vocabulary of seed terms. Unlike all previous approaches, which typically extract direct hypernym edges for terms, our approach utilizes a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Amit Gupta , Rémi Lebret , Hamza Harkous , Karl Aberer

Corpus-based set expansion (i.e., finding the "complete" set of entities belonging to the same semantic class, based on a given corpus and a tiny set of seeds) is a critical task in knowledge discovery. It may facilitate numerous downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Jiaming Shen , Zeqiu Wu , Dongming Lei , Jingbo Shang , Xiang Ren , Jiawei Han

The rapid evolution of scientific fields introduces challenges in organizing and retrieving scientific literature. While expert-curated taxonomies have traditionally addressed this need, the process is time-consuming and expensive.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Priyanka Kargupta , Nan Zhang , Yunyi Zhang , Rui Zhang , Prasenjit Mitra , Jiawei Han

Practitioners from many disciplines (e.g., political science) use expert-crafted taxonomies to make sense of large, unlabeled corpora. In this work, we study Seeded Hierarchical Clustering (SHC): the task of automatically fitting unlabeled…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Anish Saha , Amith Ananthram , Emily Allaway , Heng Ji , Kathleen McKeown

Taxonomies play a crucial role in various applications by providing a structural representation of knowledge. The task of taxonomy expansion involves integrating emerging concepts into existing taxonomies by identifying appropriate parent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qingkai Zeng , Yuyang Bai , Zhaoxuan Tan , Zhenyu Wu , Shangbin Feng , Meng Jiang

Taxonomies represent an arborescence hierarchical structure that establishes relationships among entities to convey knowledge within a specific domain. Each edge in the taxonomy signifies a hypernym-hyponym relationship. Taxonomies find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Sahil Mishra , Ujjwal Sudev , Tanmoy Chakraborty
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