Method and Apparatus for Aligning Multiple Taxonomies
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1. A method comprising:
- mapping a first set of concept nodes in a first taxonomy to a second set of concept nodes in a second taxonomy by aligning nodes with equivalent categories of documents in the first taxonomy and second taxonomy; and
generating a master taxonomy having a plurality of mapped concept nodes, the first set of concept nodes for organizing a first plurality of documents and the second set of concept nodes for organizing a second plurality of documents, each of the first and second plurality of documents associated with a document gloss, each of the mapped concept nodes containing documents from a concept node from the first taxonomy and a concept node from the second taxonomy that contain equivalent categories of documents.
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Abstract
A document taxonomy alignment system and method, relying on document glosses and utilizing a soft ontology expansion. An all-new hierarchical leaf node can be created expressly for the purpose of better aligning the plurality of document taxonomies in question. A small but valuable subset of the nodes created by soft ontology expansion turn out to capture some otherwise unmappable taxonomy nodes, and thereby have the effect of classifying the documents better than would any pre-existing node in any one of those taxonomies.
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1. A method comprising:
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mapping a first set of concept nodes in a first taxonomy to a second set of concept nodes in a second taxonomy by aligning nodes with equivalent categories of documents in the first taxonomy and second taxonomy; and generating a master taxonomy having a plurality of mapped concept nodes, the first set of concept nodes for organizing a first plurality of documents and the second set of concept nodes for organizing a second plurality of documents, each of the first and second plurality of documents associated with a document gloss, each of the mapped concept nodes containing documents from a concept node from the first taxonomy and a concept node from the second taxonomy that contain equivalent categories of documents. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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2. A computer readable storage medium having computer executable instructions recorded thereon which cause a computer system to carry out a method when executed, the method comprising:
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mapping a first set of concept nodes in a first taxonomy to a second set of concepts in a second taxonomy by aligning nodes with equivalent categories of documents in the first taxonomy and second taxonomy; and generating a master taxonomy having a plurality of mapped concept nodes, the first set of concept nodes for organizing a first plurality of documents and the second set of concept nodes for organizing a second plurality of documents, each of the first and second plurality of documents associated with a document gloss, each of the mapped concept nodes containing documents from a concept node from the first taxonomy and a concept node from the second taxonomy that contain equivalent categories of documents. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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3. A computer system for mapping a taxonomy to at least one other taxonomy, wherein the computer system comprises a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer executable instructions recorded thereon which cause a computer system to carry out a method, the taxonomies including categories of documents, the computer system comprising:
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means for mapping a first set of concept nodes in a first taxonomy to a second set of concepts in a second taxonomy by aligning nodes with equivalent categories of documents in the first taxonomy and second taxonomy; and generating a master taxonomy having a plurality of mapped concept nodes, the first set of concept nodes for organizing a first plurality of documents and the second set of concept nodes for organizing a second plurality of documents, each of the first and second plurality of documents associated with a document gloss, each of the mapped concept nodes containing documents from a concept node from the first taxonomy and a concept node from the second taxonomy that contain equivalent categories of documents. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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