Fastaxon: A System For Fast (And Faceted) Taxonomy Design

Abstract: compound terms (conjunctions of terms) over thefaceted taxonomy. Faceted taxonomies carry a number of well known advantagesover single hierarchies in terms of building and maintaining them, as well asusing them in multicriteria indexing (e.g. see [3]). FASTAXON is a system forbuilding big (compound) taxonomies based on the above mentioned idea. Usingthe system, the designer at first defines a number of facets and assigns to eachone of them one taxonomy. After that the system can generate...