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Taxonomy (general)

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For biological taxonomy, see Taxonomy (biology). For other uses,see Taxonomy (disambiguation).

Taxonomyis the practice and science of classication. The word is also usedas a count noun: a taxonomy, or taxonomic scheme, is aparticular classication. The word nds its roots in the reeklanguage!"#$%, taxis(meaning &order&, &arrangement&)and '*%, nomos(&law& or &science&). +riginally taxonomyreferred only tothe classifying of organisms or a particular classication of organisms.-/n awider, more general sense, it may refer to a classication of things orconcepts, as well as to the principles underlying such a classication.Taxonomy is di0erent from meronomywhich is dealing with the classicationof parts of a whole.

1any taxonomies ha2e a hierarchicalstructure, 3ut this is not a re4uirement.Taxonomy uses taxonomic units, known as taxa(singular taxon).

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Wikipediacategories illustrate a taxonomy6and a full taxonomy of Wikipediacategories can 3e extracted 3y automatic means.78ecently, it has 3eenshown that a manually9constructed taxonomy, such as that of computational

lexicons like Wordet, can 3e used to impro2e and restructure the Wikipediacategory taxonomy.;

/n a 3roader sense, taxonomy also applies to relationship schemes otherthan parent9child hierarchies, such as network structures. Taxonomies maythen include single children with multi9parents, for example,

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su3sets of the total set of classied o3Eects. The progress of reasoningproceeds from the general to the more specic.

y contrast, in the context of legal terminology, an open9ended contextualtaxonomy is employedGa taxonomy holding only with respect to a specic

context. /n scenarios taken from the legal domain, a formal account of theopen9texture of legal terms is modeled, which suggests 2arying notions ofthe

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a $hiloso%hical Language(-DDL), from which the classication schemein 8oget&sThesaurusultimately deri2es.

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