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This paper is a tutorial on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) and its applications. FCA is an applied branch of Lattice Theory, a mathematical discipline which enables formalisation of concepts as basic units of human thinking and analysing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Dmitry I. Ignatov

We present a novel approach to the automatic acquisition of taxonomies or concept hierarchies from a text corpus. The approach is based on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA), a method mainly used for the analysis of data, i.e. for investigating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-13 P. Cimiano , A. Hotho , S. Staab

In this paper, we propose an alternative to deep neural networks for semantic information retrieval for the case of long documents. This new approach exploiting clustering techniques to take into account the meaning of words in Information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Paul Mbathe Mekontchou , Armel Fotsoh , Bernabe Batchakui , Eddy Ella

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematical framework for knowledge representation and discovery. It performs a hierarchical clustering over a set of objects described by attributes, resulting in conceptual structures in which objects…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jessie Galasso

Formal Concept Analysis "FCA" is a data analysis method which enables to discover hidden knowledge existing in data. A kind of hidden knowledge extracted from data is association rules. Different quality measures were reported in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-08-24 Dhouha Grissa , Sylvie Guillaume , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematical theory based on the formalization of the notions of concept and concept hierarchies. It has been successfully applied to several Computer Science fields such as data mining,software…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-05-29 Leonard Kwuida , Rokia Missaoui , Lahcen Boumedjout , Jean Vaillancourt

In recent years, quantum-based methods have promisingly integrated the traditional procedures in information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by our research on the identification and application of quantum…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-31 Diederik Aerts , Jan Broekaert , Sandro Sozzo , Tomas Veloz

Textual queries are largely employed in information retrieval to let users specify search goals in a natural way. However, differences in user and system terminologies can challenge the identification of the user's information needs, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Noemi Mauro , Liliana Ardissono , Adriano Savoca

Formal Concept Analysis and its associated conceptual structures have been used to support exploratory search through conceptual navigation. Relational Concept Analysis (RCA) is an extension of Formal Concept Analysis to process relational…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-03-22 Alexandre Bazin , Jessie Carbonnel , Marianne Huchard , Giacomo Kahn

The vast growth of data has rendered traditional manual inspection infeasible, necessitating the adoption of computational methods for efficient data exploration. Topic modeling has emerged as a powerful tool for analyzing large-scale…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Klara M. Gutekunst , Dominik Dürrschnabel , Johannes Hirth , Gerd Stumme

In this paper the problems of deriving a taxonomy from a text and concept-oriented text segmentation are approached. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) method is applied to solve both of these linguistic problems. The proposed segmentation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-10-13 Mihaiela Lupea , Doina Tatar , Zsuzsana Marian

Traditional information retrieval systems rely on keywords to index documents and queries. In such systems, documents are retrieved based on the number of shared keywords with the query. This lexical-focused retrieval leads to inaccurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Fatiha Boubekeur , Wassila Azzoug

Citation-based Information Retrieval (IR) methods for scientific documents have proven effective for IR applications, such as Plagiarism Detection or Literature Recommender Systems in academic disciplines that use many references. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Philipp Scharpf , Moritz Schubotz , Howard S. Cohl , Corinna Breitinger , Bela Gipp

Formal concept analysis (FCA) is built on a special type of Galois connections called polarities. We present new results in formal concept analysis and in Galois connections by presenting new Galois connection results and then applying…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-09-23 Jeffrey T. Denniston , Austin Melton , Stephen E. Rodabaugh

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is an approach to creating a conceptual hierarchy in which a \textit{concept lattice} is generated from a \textit{formal context}. That is, a triple consisting of a set of objects, $G$, a set of attributes,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Lucas Carr , Nicholas Leisegang , Thomas Meyer , Sebastian Rudolph

This paper proposes an incremental method that can be used by an intelligent system to learn better descriptions of a thematic context. The method starts with a small number of terms selected from a simple description of the topic under…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-04-28 Carlos M. Lorenzetti , Ana G. Maguitman

Fighting criminal activities in our modern societies required the engagement of intelligent information systems that can analyze crime data geographically and enable new concepts to be deduced from it. These information systems should be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-10-04 Quist-Aphetsi Kester

Explainability is a key challenge and a major research theme in AI research for developing intelligent systems that are capable of working with humans more effectively. An obvious choice in developing explainable intelligent systems relies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Erman Acar , Andrea De Domenico , Krishna Manoorkar , Mattia Panettiere

Search engines are the most commonly used type of tool for finding relevant information on the Internet. However, today's search engines are far from perfect. Typical search queries are short, often one or two words, and can be ambiguous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-07-24 Dilip K. Limbu , Andy M. Connor , Stephen G. MacDonell

Due to the exponential growth of big data in this digital era, an advanced method for effective information retrieval becomes essential. The basic objective of this paper is to propose a topology-based method for cognitive information…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Santanu Acharjee , Ripunjoy Choudhury
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