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Everything about Taxonomy

Development of classes and classifications

Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme of classes and the allocation of things to the classes (classification). Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: TaxonomyA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models: Principles, Taxonomy, Challenges, and Open QuestionsInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: PsychologyThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Naïve Bayesian Classifier for Rapid Assignment of rRNA Sequences into the New Bacterial TaxonomyCited 18,447 times
  5. Go sideways: Automatic taxonomy constructionA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Folk taxonomyA closely related topic

📖 Definitions

Noun The science, technique, or process used to make a classification.

Noun A classification; especially, a classification in a hierarchical system.

Noun The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. Etymology
  2. Applications
  3. History
  4. Taxonomy in various disciplines
  5. Is-a and has-a relationships, and hyponymy
  6. Research
  7. Theoretical approaches
  8. Examples of important taxonomies
  9. Sample list of taxonomies
  10. Organizations involved in taxonomy

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

🆕 Influential since 2022

📚 Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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