Building and Maintaining Web Taxonomies
Wray Buntine, Sami Perttu, Kirsi A. Tirri · 2002
A recognized problem for internet commerce is the task of building a product taxonomy from web pages, without access to corporate databases, and then populating a database with link information about service, spare parts, reviews, product specifications, product family, etc. A key precursor for this task is the ability to build classification hierarchies in an unsupervised manner of web pages potentially useful.