rajesh-chawla / awesome-taxonomy

A curated resource for taxonomy research

awesome-taxonomy

A curated resource for taxonomy research

Datasets / Shared Tasks

1. SemEval-2015 Task 17: Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation (TExEval-1), Home, Report

2. SemEval-2016 Task 13: Taxonomy Extraction Evaluation (TExEval-2), Home, Report

3. SemEval-2016 Task 14: Semantic Taxonomy Enrichment, Home, Report

4. SemEval-2018 Task 9: Hypernym Discovery, Home, Report

5. UnsupervisedHypernymy, Home, EACL 2017 paper, including 4 datasets:

   • (Hypernymy Detection): EVAL, BLESS, LEDS (a.k.a Lenci/Benotto), Weeds

6. HypernymySuite, Home, ACL 2018 paper, including (somewhat modified) datasets:

   • (Hypernymy Detection): BLESS, LEDS, EVAL, SHWARTZ, WBLESS
   • (Hypernymy Direction): BLESS, WBLESS, BIBLESS
   • (Graded Entailment): HyperLex

Paper

Survey & Tutorials

• [ACL 2017] A Short Survey on Taxonomy Learning from Text Corpora: Issues, Resources and Recent Advances

Hypernymy Discovery & Lexical Entailment

• [IJCAI 2015] Learning Term Embeddings for Hypernymy Identification
• [ACL 2016] Improving Hypernymy Detection with an Integrated Path-based and Distributional Method (HypeNet)
  • Code: https://github.com/vered1986/HypeNET
• [COLING 2016 CogALex-V] LexNET -- Integrated Path-based and Distributional Method for the Identification of Semantic Relations
  • Code: https://github.com/vered1986/LexNET
• [SemEval 2016] TAXI at SemEval-2016 Task 13: a Taxonomy Induction Method based on Lexico-Syntactic Patterns, Substrings and Focused Crawling
• [EMNLP 2016] Relations such as Hypernymy: Identifying and Exploiting Hearst Patterns in Distributional Vectors for Lexical Entailment
  • Code: https://github.com/stephenroller/emnlp2016
• [EMNLP 2016] Learning Term Embeddings for Taxonomic Relation Identification Using Dynamic Weighting Neural Network
• [EACL 2017] Hypernyms under Siege: Linguistically-motivated Artillery for Hypernymy Detection
  • Code: https://github.com/vered1986/UnsupervisedHypernymy
• [EMNLP 2017] Hierarchical Embeddings for Hypernymy Detection and Directionality (HyperVec)
  • Code: https://github.com/nguyenkh/HyperVec
• [NAACL 2018] Distributional Inclusion Vector Embedding for Unsupervised Hypernymy Detection
• [NAACL 2018] Specialising Word Vectors for Lexical Entailment
  • Code: https://github.com/nmrksic/lear
• [SEM 2018] Term Definitions Help Hypernymy Detection
• Hearst Patterns Revisited: Automatic Hypernym Detection from Large Text Corpora [ACL 2018]
  • Code: https://github.com/facebookresearch/hypernymysuite
• [AAAI 2019] Improving Hypernymy Prediction via Taxonomy Enhanced Adversarial Learning
  • Code: https://github.com/chywang/TEAL
• [WWW 2019] A Family of Fuzzy Orthogonal Projection Models for Monolingual and Cross-lingual Hypernymy Prediction
  • Code: https://github.com/chywang/FOP
• [CIKM 2019] Discovering Hypernymy in Text-Rich Heterogeneous Information Network by Exploiting Context Granularity
  • Code: https://github.com/ysyushi/HyperMine

Concept Taxonomy Construction (Instance-based Taxonomy)

• [ACL 2006] Semantic Taxonomy Induction from Heterogenous Evidence
• [AAAI 2007] Deriving a Large Scale Taxonomy from Wikipedia
• [ACL 2009] A Metric-based Framework for Automatic Taxonomy Induction
• [EMNLP 2010] A Semi-Supervised Method to Learn and Construct Taxonomies using the Web
• [CIKM 2010] MENTA: Inducing Multilingual Taxonomies from Wikipedia
• [IJCAI 2011] A graph-based algorithm for inducing lexical taxonomies from scratch
• [SIGMOD 2012] Probase: A probabilistic taxonomy for text understanding
• [ACL 2014]Learning Semantic Hierarchies via Word Embeddings
• [ACL 2014] Two Is Bigger (and Better) Than One -- the Wikipedia Bitaxonomy Project
  • Resources: http://wibitaxonomy.org/
• [ACL 2014] Structured Learning for Taxonomy Induction with Belief Propagation
• [EMNLP 2014] Taxonomy Construction Using Syntactic Contextual Evidence
• [EMNLP 2015] Incorporating Trustiness and Collective Synonym and Contrastive Evidence into Taxonomy Construction
• [ICDM 2015] Automatic Taxonomy Extraction from Bipartite Graphs
• [ACL 2016] Learning Concept Taxonomies from Multi-modal Data
• [COLING 2016] Revisiting Taxonomy Induction over Wikipedia
• [CIKM 2017] Taxonomy Induction using Hypernym Subsequences
• [NAACL 2018 ] Comparing Constraints for Taxonomic Organization
• [KDD 2018] HiExpan: Task-Guided Taxonomy Construction by Hierarchical Tree Expansion
  • Code: https://github.com/mickeystroller/HiExpan
• [ACL 2018] End-to-End Reinforcement Learning for Automatic Taxonomy Induction
  • Code: https://github.com/morningmoni/TaxoRL
• [ACL 2019] Inferring Concept Hierarchies from Text Corpora via Hyperbolic Embeddings

Topic Taxonomy Construction (Clustering-based Taxonomy)

• [KDD 2012] Automatic Taxonomy Construction from Keywords
• [KDD 2013] A Phrase Mining Framework for Recursive Construction of a Topical Hierarchy
• [ACL 2015] Efficient Methods for Inferring Large Sparse Topic Hierarchies
• [KDD 2018] TaxoGen: Unsupervised Topic Taxonomy Construction by Adaptive Term Embedding and Clustering
  • Code: https://github.com/franticnerd/taxogen

Taxonomy Expansion & Enrichment

• [CIKM 2012] A graph-based approach for ontology population with named entities
• [WWW 2014] A Hierarchical Dirichlet Model for Taxonomy Expansion for Search Engines
• [NAACL 2015] Reserating the awesometastic: An automatic extension of the WordNet taxonomy for novel terms
• [SemEval 2016] SemEval-2016 Task 14: Semantic Taxonomy Enrichment
• [SIGIR 2018] Enriching Taxonomies With Functional Domain Knowledge
• [ACL 2019] Every child should have parents: a taxonomy refinement algorithm based on hyperbolic term embeddings
  • Code: https://github.com/uhh-lt/Taxonomy_Refinement_Embeddings
• [ACL 2019] Automatic Taxonomy Induction and Expansion
• [WWW 2020] Expanding Taxonomies with Implicit Edge Semantics
• [WWW 2020] TaxoExpan: Self-supervised Taxonomy Expansion with Position-Enhanced Graph Neural Network
  • Code: https://github.com/mickeystroller/TaxoExpan

Taxonomy Application

• [CIKM 2004] Taxonomy-driven computation of product recommendations
• [VLDB 2012] Supercharging Recommender Systems using Taxonomies for Learning User Purchase Behavior
• [WSDM 2019] Taxonomy-Aware Multi-Hop Reasoning Networks for Sequential Recommendation
  • Code: https://github.com/RUCDM/TMRN
• [KDD 2019] A User-Centered Concept Mining System for Query and Document Understanding at Tencent
  • Code: https://github.com/BangLiu/ConcepT
• [KDD 2019] Universal Representation Learning of Knowledge Bases by Jointly Embedding Instances and Ontological Concepts
  • Code: https://github.com/JunhengH/joie-kdd19
• [CIKM 2019] STAR: Spatio-Temporal Taxonomy-Aware Tag Recommendation for Citizen Complaints.pdf
  • Code: https://github.com/jygao97/STAR

Joint Taxonomy Construction and Application

• [EMNLP 2012] Constructing Task-Specific Taxonomies for Document Collection Browsing
• [WSDM 2014] Taxonomy Discovery for Personalized Recommendation
• [KDD 2018] On Interpretation of Network Embedding via Taxonomy Induction
• [WWW 2019] TiFi: Taxonomy Induction for Fictional Domains