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Chapter 4.7: Taxonomies

Fig. 4.7.8 The output from processing taxonomies is a word pair specification.

Different Types of Taxonomies

An interesting point about taxonomies is that taxonomies themselves can be classified in
many ways. Stated differently, there are many different ways to create the lists and
classifications that make up taxonomies. Some taxonomies are made up of words that are
synonyms. Other taxonomies are simply a list of words that happen to be gathered
together. Other taxonomies are categories of words and so forth.

Fig. 4.7.9 shows that there are many different kinds of taxonomies.

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