Comparison with Other Techniques

Abstract

This chapter compares dynamic taxonomies with the other main approaches to information access and discusses analogies and differences. The approaches analyzed range from traditional retrieval paradigms, such as queries on structured data, to the most recent approaches, including the current effort on the Semantic Web:

• queries on structured data, and OLAP data analysis techniques;

• information retrieval on textual material, and recent extensions such as dynamic clustering and term suggestion;

• static taxonomies, and multidimensional taxonomies without concept composition;

• decision trees;

• Formal Concept Analysis (FCA); and

• Description Logics and the Semantic Web.

“Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”

Albert Einstein, 1879–1955