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Taxonomies have been widely used in various machine learning and text mining systems to organize knowledge and facilitate downstream tasks. One critical challenge is that, as data and business scope grow in real applications, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xiangchen Song , Jiaming Shen , Jieyu 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 are of great value to many knowledge-rich applications. As the manual taxonomy curation costs enormous human effects, automatic taxonomy construction is in great demand. However, most existing automatic taxonomy construction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Jiaming Shen , Zeqiu Wu , Dongming Lei , Chao Zhang , Xiang Ren , Michelle T. Vanni , Brian M. Sadler , Jiawei Han

Taxonomies are fundamental to many real-world applications in various domains, serving as structural representations of knowledge. To deal with the increasing volume of new concepts needed to be organized as taxonomies, researchers turn to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Minhao Jiang , Xiangchen Song , Jieyu Zhang , Jiawei Han

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

Taxonomies have been widely used in various domains to underpin numerous applications. Specially, product taxonomies serve an essential role in the e-commerce domain for the recommendation, browsing, and query understanding. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Sijie Cheng , Zhouhong Gu , Bang Liu , Rui Xie , Wei Wu , Yanghua Xiao

Taxonomies have found wide applications in various domains, especially online for item categorization, browsing, and search. Despite the prevalent use of online catalog taxonomies, most of them in practice are maintained by humans, which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Yuning Mao , Tong Zhao , Andrey Kan , Chenwei Zhang , Xin Luna Dong , Christos Faloutsos , Jiawei Han

Knowledge graphs such as DBpedia, Freebase or Wikidata always contain a taxonomic backbone that allows the arrangement and structuring of various concepts in accordance with the hypo-hypernym ("class-subclass") relationship. With the rapid…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Irina Nikishina , Mikhail Tikhomirov , Varvara Logacheva , Yuriy Nazarov , Alexander Panchenko , Natalia Loukachevitch

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 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

Recognizing similarities among entities is central to both human cognition and computational intelligence. Within this broader landscape, Entity Set Expansion is one prominent task aimed at taking an initial set of (tuples of) entities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Giovanni Amendola , Pietro Cofone , Marco Manna , Aldo Ricioppo

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

A taxonomy is a hierarchical graph containing knowledge to provide valuable insights for various web applications. However, the manual construction of taxonomies requires significant human effort. As web content continues to expand at an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Sahil Mishra , Avi Patni , Niladri Chatterjee , Tanmoy Chakraborty

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

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

Topic taxonomies, which represent the latent topic (or category) structure of document collections, provide valuable knowledge of contents in many applications such as web search and information filtering. Recently, several unsupervised…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Dongha Lee , Jiaming Shen , SeongKu Kang , Susik Yoon , Jiawei Han , Hwanjo Yu

Taxonomies form the backbone of structured knowledge representation across diverse domains, enabling applications such as e-commerce catalogs, semantic search, and biomedical discovery. Yet, manual taxonomy expansion is labor-intensive and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Sahil Mishra , Srinitish Srinivasan , Srikanta Bedathur , Tanmoy Chakraborty

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

Automatically constructing taxonomy finds many applications in e-commerce and web search. One critical challenge is as data and business scope grow in real applications, new concepts are emerging and needed to be added to the existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Jieyu Zhang , Xiangchen Song , Ying Zeng , Jiaze Chen , Jiaming Shen , Yuning Mao , Lei Li

Taxonomies are hierarchical knowledge graphs crucial for recommendation systems, and web applications. As data grows, expanding taxonomies is essential, but existing methods face key challenges: (1) discriminative models struggle with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sahil Mishra , Kumar Arjun , Tanmoy Chakraborty
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