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ASIST Special Interest Group - Classification Research - Studies the fundamental principles, underlying processes, and analytic constructs of classification schemes and procedures by humans or automata.

Automatic Categorization of Magazine Articles - Research paper discussing automatic categorization of magazine articles with broad subject descriptors. Focuses upon the following aspects of text classification: effective selection of feature words and proper names that reflect the main topics of the text, and training of text classifiers.

Classification Society of North America - Scientific organization studying classification and clustering, including systematic methods for creating classification schemes from unstructured data.

Content Wire: Taxonomies - Links to articles on using taxonomies in knowledge organization.

Controlled Vocabulary - Describes how controlled vocabularies are useful in describing images and information for classifying content in electronic databases. Links to sample hierarchies and controlled vocabularies. Also features links to related resources.

Delphi Group Taxonomy and Content Classification Report - Examines software segment for taxonomy management.

EncycloZine: Content Classification Schemes - Discusses the limitations of traditional library and content classification schemes to organizing information in an electronic environment.

Flamenco Project - Investigates how to effectively incorporate large, faceted category hierarchies into information access user interfaces.

International Federation of Classification Societies - A federation of national, regional, and linguistically-based classification societies whose aims are to further knowledge classification research.

Managing Taxonomies Strategically - Brief article focused on helping knowledge base publishers understand how taxonomies work and how to implement them. Features related articles.

Online Taxonomies: The Next Shift for Information Science - Briefly discusses the use of taxonomies in organizing unstructured data.

Organizational Theory Bibliography - Annotated list of works on classification theory, classification systems, controlled vocabularies, indexing, index design, thesaurus design, and library and information science.

Practical Issues for Automated Categorization of Web Sites - Research paper discussing several issues related to automated text classification of web sites. Includes bibliography. By John M. Pierre.

Practical Taxonomies - Examines the use and implementation of taxonomies to organize organizational knowledge and data.

Project Aristotle - Projects, research, products and services investigating or demonstrating automated Web categorization. Some prototypes and demos are available.

Snowfox - Provides a web directory where links associated with a topic are placed by automatic text categorization. Includes a description of the Snowfox Relevance Engine, a white paper that can be requested on directories and an article on ten miscategorization errors.

Taxonomies Are What? - Describes the use of taxonomies to organize information on the Web.

Taxonomy Warehouse - Directory of taxonomies, thesauri, classification schemes, and other authority files, plus information on how to license the taxonomies. Features search, browse and alert service.

Taxonomy: Creating Knowledge from Chaos - Brief overview of taxonomies and their use in organizing information on the Internet.

The Scorpion Project - Project of the OCLC Office of Research exploring the indexing and cataloging of electronic resources.

Word Wranglers - Surveys the rapidly changing automatic classification software market and examine the features and capabilities of leading classification products.

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