Facet analysis techniques for automatic classification systems: A study for colon classification

The method of identification of facets from the title of documents is discussed in this paper. States the technique of selecting respective category-name of facets to follow the facet formula in general. Also includes the scope of defining the specific facet formula for any specific subject. Illustrates steps followed in analyzing titles (i.e. in the form of natural language sentence) of documents for finding out noun phrases and picking up isolate numbers, symbols, basic subjects from the frame based knowledge base designed for this purpose. Emphasizes on integration of expert system and natural language processing components to proceed towards a successful automatic classification system.