Categorizing objects, such as documents and/or clusters, with respect to a taxonomy and data structures derived from such categorization

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A Website may be automatically categorized by (a) accepting Website information, (b) determining a set of scored clusters (e.g. semantic term co-, occurrence, etc.) for the Website using the Website information and (c) , determining at least one category (e.g. a vertical category) of a predefined taxonomy using at least some of the set of clusters. A semantic cluster (e.g. a term co-occurrence cluster) may be automatically associated with one or more categories (e.g. vertical categories) of a predefined taxonomy by (a) accepting a semantic cluster, (b) identifying a set of a one or more scored concepts using the accepted cluster, (c) identifying a set of one or more categories using …