ACROSS: A framework for multi-cultural interlinking of web taxonomies
Résumé
The Web hosts a huge variety of multi-cultural taxonomies. They encompass product catalogs of e-commerce, generalpurpose
knowledge bases and numerous domain-specific category systems. The "common denominator" of all these is their
enormous diversity, which makes it infeasible to combine multiple taxonomies for ad-hoc tasks. To support the alignment
of independently created Web taxonomies, we introduce the ACROSS framework. For mapping categories across different
taxonomies, ACROSS harnesses instance-level features as well as distant supervision from an intermediate source like
multiple Wikipedia editions. Our experiments with heterogeneous taxonomies for different domains demonstrate the viability of our approach and improvement over state-of-theart baselines.