6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the classification is defined by a first classification level in a plurality of classification levels defined in a classification hierarchy.
1. A method performed with a distributed computing system for classifying one or more commodities, the method comprising: receiving, at a local computing system, a query from a business enterprise computing system, the query comprising data associated with a business enterprise commodity, the data comprising one or more attributes of the business enterprise commodity; matching the one or more attributes of the business enterprise commodity with one or more terms of a plurality of terms in a word matrix, the word matrix comprising: a plurality of nodes that each comprise a term of the plurality of terms; and a plurality of links that each connect two or more nodes and define a similarity between the two or more nodes; generating, based on the matching, a numerical vector for the business enterprise commodity; identifying, based on the numerical vector, one or more classification regions that each define a classification of the business enterprise commodity; and preparing the classifications of the business enterprise commodity of the one or more identified classification regions for display at the business enterprise computing system.