Abstract: A document taxonomy alignment system and method, relying on document glosses and utilizing a soft ontology expansion. An all-new hierarchical leaf node can be created expressly for the purpose of better aligning the plurality of document taxonomies in question. A small but valuable subset of the nodes created by soft ontology expansion turn out to capture some otherwise unmappable taxonomy nodes, and thereby have the effect of classifying the documents better than would any pre-existing node in any one of those taxonomies.

Abstract: A document taxonomy alignment system and method, relying on document glosses and utilizing a soft ontology expansion. An all-new hierarchical leaf node can be created expressly for the purpose of better aligning the plurality of document taxonomies in question. A small but valuable subset of the nodes created by soft ontology expansion turn out to capture some otherwise unmappable taxonomy nodes, and thereby have the effect of classifying the documents better than would any pre-existing node in any one of those taxonomies.

Abstract: A system and method for interlinking differing taxonomies, the system including a communications module that provides access to corpora having electronic documents categorized in accordance with first and second taxonomies with a plurality of nodes. The system also includes an analysis module that analyzes the nodes of the first taxonomy, the nodes of the second taxonomy, and at least one of the first plurality of electronic documents and the second plurality of documents, to identify nodes of the second taxonomy that correspond to nodes of the first taxonomy. A processor generates an interlinked taxonomy structure with a plurality of links interlinking together nodes of the first and second taxonomies identified to be related to each other, while also providing informative glosses of each node.