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Chapter 4.7: Taxonomies

Fig. 4.7.7 Taxonomies serve as input to textual ETL.

There are many reasons for the logic behind separating the building and management of
the taxonomies from textual disambiguation. But the primary reason is that textual

disambiguation is complex enough without adding the further complexity of the building
and management of taxonomies to the process.

Another way to explain the differences between the two processes is to look at the
representation of taxonomies in the different technologies. In the world of taxonomy
management, taxonomies require a robust and complex representation. But in the world
of textual disambiguation, taxonomies are represented as a series of word pairs.

Fig. 4.7.8 shows this distinct difference between the two technologies.

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