Automated Taxonomy Discovery and Exploration

Jiaming Shen, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at Google Research working on data mining and natural language processing. His research aims to develop automated methods for mining knowledge from text data without excessive human annotations.  He completed his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research has been awarded several fellowships and scholarships, including a Brian Totty Graduate Fellowship and a Yunni & Maxine Pao Memorial Fellowship.Jiawei Han, Ph.D. is a Michael Aiken Chair Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research areas encompass data mining, text mining, data warehousing, and information network analysis, with over 800 research publications. He is a Fellow of both ACM and the IEEE and has received numerous prominent awards, including the ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award (2004) and the IEEE Computer Society W. Wallace McDowell Award (2009).

• Introduction.- Concept Set Expansion.- Taxonomy Construction.- Taxonomy Enrichment.- Taxonomy-Guided Classification.- Conclusions.