FASTAXON: A System for FAST (and Faceted) TAXONomy Design

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Authors: Esko Simpanen et al., Mika Hakkarainen, Pekka Korhonen, Raimo Launonen, Tero Leppänen, Yannis Tzitzikas

Tags: 2004, conceptual modeling

Building very big taxonomies is a laborious task vulnerable to errors and management/scalability deficiencies. FASTAXON is a system for building very big taxonomies in a quick, flexible and scalable manner that is based on the faceted classification paradigm [4] and the Compound Term Composition Algebra [5]. We sketch the architecture and the functioning of this system and we report our experiences from using this system in real applications.

Read the full paper here: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-30464-7_66