International Business Machines Corporation

Adrian Mueller

Roland Seiffert

Peter Gerstl

Jochen F Doerre

Frank Neumann

Sebastian Goeser

Birgit Hamp

Annette Opalka

Orthogonal browsing in object hierarchies

This mechanism relates to a method within the area of information mining within a multitude of documents stored on computer systems. More particularly, this mechanism relates to a computerized method of generating a content taxonomy of a multitude of electronic documents. The technique proposed by the current invention is able to improve at the same time the scalability and the coherence and selectivity of taxonomy generation. The fundamental approach of the current invention comprises a subset selection step, wherein a subset of a multitude of documents is being selected. In a taxonomy generation step a taxonomy is generated for that selected subset of documents, the taxonomy being a tree structured taxonomy hierarchy. Moreover this method comprises a routing selection step assigning each unprocessed document to the taxonomy hierarchy based on largest similarity.

Taxonomy generation for document collections

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Boeblingen, Germany

Adrian Mueller