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- Taxonomy is a defined hierarchy of categories - a treelike structure of customer- or market-specific terminology that defines how categories relate to one another. It provides a conceptual framework for discussion, analysis, or information retrieval. For example, a car manufacturer may have a taxonomy based on the type of car (convertible, SUV, wagon, etc.). Taxonomies help partition the search environment and experience, based on a pre-defined knowledge of categories. This helps limit the number of "noisy" results returned to the user.
FAST - Cite This Source - This Definition - A classification of objects into groups based on similarities. In enterprise search, a taxonomy organizes data into categories and subcategories. See also category tree.
IBM - Cite This Source - This Definition - Categorization, category, category tree, Classification or Categorization, model-based category, Subject-Matter Expert (SME), Supervised clustering
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