TY - PAT T1 - Object Classification Using Taxonomies Y1 - 2010 A1 - Tsaparas,Panayiotis A1 - Papadimitriou,Panagiotis A1 - Fuxman,Ariel D. A1 - Getoor, Lise A1 - Agrawal,Rakesh ED - Microsoft Corporation AB - As provided herein objects from a source catalog, such as a provider's catalog, can be added to a target catalog, such as an enterprise master catalog, in a scalable manner utilizing catalog taxonomies. A baseline classifier determines probabilities for source objects to target catalog classes. Source objects can be assigned to those classes with probabilities that meet a desired threshold and meet a desired rate. A classification cost for target classes can be determined for respective unassigned source objects, which can comprise determining an assignment cost and separation cost for the source objects for respective desired target classes. The separation and assignment costs can be combined to determine the classification cost, and the unassigned source objects can be assigned to those classes having a desired classification cost. VL - 12/414,065 UR - http://www.google.com/patents?id=oXDSAAAAEBAJ ER -