Knowledge Bases (KBs) find applications in many knowledge-intensive tasks and, most
notably, in information retrieval. Wikidata is one of the largest public general-purpose KBs …

Taxonomies consist of machine-interpretable semantics and provide valuable knowledge for
many web applications. For example, online retailers (eg, Amazon and eBay) use …

Automatic construction of a taxonomy supports many applications in e-commerce, web
search, and question answering. Existing taxonomy expansion or completion methods …

The automated construction of topic taxonomies can benefit numerous applications,
including web search, recommendation, and knowledge discovery. One of the major …

Entity set expansion, aiming at expanding a small seed entity set with new entities belonging
to the same semantic class, is a critical task that benefits many downstream NLP and IR …

Taxonomies are important knowledge ontologies that underpin numerous applications on a
daily basis, but many taxonomies used in practice suffer from the low coverage issue. We …

Taxonomy is not only a fundamental form of knowledge representation, but also crucial to
vast knowledge-rich applications, such as question answering and web search. Most …

Automatically constructing taxonomy finds many applications in e-commerce and web
search. One critical challenge is as data and business scope grow in real applications, new …

Phrase mining is a fundamental text mining task that aims to identify quality phrases from
context. Nevertheless, the scarcity of extensive gold labels datasets, demanding substantial …

Topic taxonomies, which represent the latent topic (or category) structure of document
collections, provide valuable knowledge of contents in many applications such as web …