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A Deep Search Architecture For Capturing Product Ontologies, Tejeshwar Sangameswaran
A Deep Search Architecture For Capturing Product Ontologies, Tejeshwar Sangameswaran
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This thesis describes a method to populate very large product ontologies quickly. We discuss a deep search architecture to text-mine online e-commerce market places and build a taxonomy of products and their corresponding descriptions and parent categories. The goal is to automatically construct an open database of products, which are aggregated from different online retailers. The database contains extensive metadata on each object, which can be queried and analyzed. Such a public database currently does not exist; instead the information currently resides siloed within various organizations. In this thesis, we describe the tools, data structures and software architectures that allowed …