The invention discloses an automatic special subject generating method based on a book catalogue. For each book, each chapter in the catalogue is regarded as a word, features of the words are extracted, a classifier is trained out to recognize entities in the book catalogue, and a chapter pair meeting the hyponymy is extracted out for each pair of superior and subordinate chapter words belonging to the entities in the book catalogue. The concept hierarchical structure of each word is constructed according to the hyponymy, and the same or similar concept hierarchies in all the books are fused; for each concept word in the concept hierarchies, the content of the concept word in a webpage and a book is searched to serve as the description content of the word; finally, the concept hierarchies and the concept word contents are organized into the form of a special subject. By means of the automatic special subject generating method, the structured information of the book catalogue and a machine learning related algorithm are utilized, extraction and reorganization of knowledge are achieved, reference can be provided for compiling the special subject, the manpower cost of related work can be greatly reduced, and high practicability is achieved.