Categorization
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- Categorization is the process of organizing pieces of information into topical categories. Usually, these are hierarchical trees, with the most general topics at the top and the most specific at the bottom. A department store might have: Products, Shoes, Women, Cross-Trainers, while a gardening site might have a category: Plants, Flowers, California Natives, Poppies. In either case, a searcher can understand more about the content of the page when they know the category. Some categorization products will attempt to classify data automatically, while others assist human catalogers A search engine may apply categorization of the documents in the index based on similarities (typically based on a training set), matching rules or programmatic rules. See also Result Clustering.
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