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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

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 completion, enriching existing taxonomies by inserting new concepts as parents or attaching them as children, has gained significant interest. Previous approaches embed concepts as vectors in Euclidean space, which makes it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Wei Xue , Yongliang Shen , Wenqi Ren , Jietian Guo , Shiliang Pu , Weiming Lu

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

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

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

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

We present a novel end-to-end reinforcement learning approach to automatic taxonomy induction from a set of terms. While prior methods treat the problem as a two-phase task (i.e., detecting hypernymy pairs followed by organizing these pairs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Yuning Mao , Xiang Ren , Jiaming Shen , Xiaotao Gu , Jiawei Han

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 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

Taxonomies play a vital role in structuring and categorizing information across domains. However, many existing taxonomies suffer from limited coverage and outdated or ambiguous nodes, reducing their effectiveness in knowledge retrieval. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zeinab Ghamlouch , Mehwish Alam

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

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

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

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

Hierarchical knowledge structures are ubiquitous across real-world domains and play a vital role in organizing information from coarse to fine semantic levels. While such structures have been widely used in taxonomy systems, biomedical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yunhui Liu , Yongchao Liu , Yinfeng Chen , Chuntao Hong , Tao Zheng , Tieke He

Academic paper search is an essential task for efficient literature discovery and scientific advancement. While dense retrieval has advanced various ad-hoc searches, it often struggles to match the underlying academic concepts between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 SeongKu Kang , Yunyi Zhang , Pengcheng Jiang , Dongha Lee , Jiawei Han , Hwanjo Yu

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

Finding an optimal word representation algorithm is particularly important in terms of domain specific data, as the same word can have different meanings and hence, different representations depending on the domain and context. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Nouman Ahmed , Ronin Wu , Victor Botev
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