Using Taxonomies to Improve Search
Presented by Seth Earley
What are the various ways that taxonomy can be applied to search? Faceted search is one, but what are others? Since taxonomy is a core organizing principle of a content management application and related search tools, there are numerous ways to influence search recall and precision by using thesaurus structures and taxonomies. Even search appliances can leverage taxonomies, and integrated search applications can maintain context of federated search using taxonomies. This practical workshop covers a variety of ways that you can integrate and fully leverage large public taxonomies as well as apply small controlled vocabularies in search applications and search systems. You will see examples of advanced and innovative integrated search environments that leverage metadata and taxonomies with various classes of search tools.
Key topics:
- Metadata and object models
- Disambiguation and Term expansion
- Best bets and tuned search
- Faceted search and guided navigation
- Natural language queries and semantic search
