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We introduce an automated method for structuring textual data into a model-agnostic schema, enabling alignment with any database model. It generates both a schema and its instance. Initially, textual data is represented as semantically…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jacques Chabin , Mirian Halfeld Ferrari , Nicolas Hiot

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 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

Based on rectangle theory of formal concept and set covering theory, the concept reduction preserving binary relations is investigated in this paper. It is known that there are three types of formal concepts: core concepts, relative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Jianqin Zhou , Sichun Yang , Xifeng Wang , Wanquan Liu

Formal concept analysis (FCA) is a well-founded method for data analysis and has many applications in data mining. Pattern structures is an extension of FCA for dealing with complex data such as sequences or graphs. However the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Aleksey Buzmakov , Sergei O. Kuznetsov , Amedeo Napoli

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

We recently presented the so-called allagmatic method, which includes a system metamodel providing a framework for describing, modelling, simulating, and interpreting complex systems. Its development and programming was guided by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Patrik Christen , Olivier Del Fabbro

The last decade has seen huge progress in the development of advanced machine learning models; however, those models are powerless unless human users can interpret them. Here we show how the mind's construction of concepts and meaning can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-04 Nick Condry

As deep neural models in NLP become more complex, and as a consequence opaque, the necessity to interpret them becomes greater. A burgeoning interest has emerged in rationalizing explanations to provide short and coherent justifications for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Neema Kotonya , Francesca Toni

Conceptual Scaling is a useful standard tool in Formal Concept Analysis and beyond. Its mathematical theory, as elaborated in the last chapter of the FCA monograph, still has room for improvement. As it stands, even some of the basic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Bernhard Ganter , Tom Hanika , Johannes Hirth

Semantic information is often represented as the entities and the relationships among them with conventional semantic models. This approach is straightforward but is not suitable for many posteriori requests in semantic data modeling. In…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Xuhui Li

In this chapter tools and techniques from the mathematical theory of formal concept analysis are applied to hypertext systems in general, and the World Wide Web in particular. Various processes for the conceptual structuring of hypertext…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-18 Robert E. Kent , Christian Neuss

We present a general form of attribute exploration, a knowledge completion algorithm from Formal Concept Analysis. The aim of our presentation is not only to extend the applicability of attribute exploration by a general description. It may…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-02-23 Daniel Borchmann

With the growing popularity of general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs), comes a need for more global explanations of model behaviors. Concept-based explanations arise as a promising avenue for explaining high-level patterns learned by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Meng Li , Haoran Jin , Ruixuan Huang , Zhihao Xu , Defu Lian , Zijia Lin , Di Zhang , Xiting Wang

Model transformation tools assist system designers by reducing the labor--intensive task of creating and updating models of various aspects of systems, ensuring that modeling assumptions remain consistent across every model of a system, and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Natasha Jarus , Sahra Sedigh Sarvestani , Ali Hurson

Modelling concept representation is a foundational problem in the study of cognition and linguistics. This work builds on the confluence of conceptual tools from G\"ardenfors semantic spaces, categorical compositional linguistics, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-07 James Hefford , Vincent Wang , Matthew Wilson

The design of conceptually sound metamodels that embody proper semantics in relation to the application domain is particularly tedious in Model-Driven Engineering. As metamodels define complex relationships between domain concepts, it is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Martin Weyssow , Houari Sahraoui , Eugene Syriani

Machine learning models that first learn a representation of a domain in terms of human-understandable concepts, then use it to make predictions, have been proposed to facilitate interpretation and interaction with models trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Isaac Lage , Finale Doshi-Velez

Manual ontology construction takes time, resources, and domain specialists. Supporting a component of this process for automation or semi-automation would be good. This project and dissertation provide a Formal Concept Analysis and WordNet…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Bryar A. Hassan

The present paper proposes a novel way to unify Rough Set Theory and Formal Concept Analysis. Our method stems from results and insights developed in the algebraic theory of modal logic, and is based on the idea that Pawlak's original…