Across: A Framework For Multi-Cultural Interlinking Of Web Taxonomies

The Web hosts a huge variety of multi-cultural taxonomies. They encompass product catalogs of e-commerce, general-purpose knowledge bases and numerous domain-specific category systems. The "common denominator" of all these is their enormous diversity, which makes it infeasible to combine multiple taxonomies for ad-hoc tasks. To support the alignment of independently created Web taxonomies, we introduce the ACROSS framework. For mapping categories across different taxonomies, ACROSS harnesses instance-level features as well as distant supervision from an intermediate source like multiple Wikipedia editions. Our experiments with heterogeneous taxonomies for different domains demonstrate the viability of our approach and improvement over state-of-the-art baselines.