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We describe how hierarchical ontologies are used for classifying products, as well as for answering queries. For classifying and scoring product descriptions and queries in an electronic-commerce search engine, we make use of declarative subset/superset and part/whole hierarchies, such as the sense hierarchies provided by WordNet. Retrieval is also aided by use of the ontology. Results of experiments were encouraging.
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Choueka, Y., Dershowitz, N., Tal, L. (2014). Matching with a Hierarchical Ontology. In: Dershowitz, N., Nissan, E. (eds) Language, Culture, Computation. Computing - Theory and Technology. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8001. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45321-2_17
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