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The theory of distributed conceptual structures, as outlined in this paper, is concerned with the distribution and conception of knowledge. It rests upon two related theories, Information Flow and Formal Concept Analysis, which it seeks to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-10-12 Robert E. Kent

In this paper we describe a mechanism to improve Information Retrieval (IR) on the web. The method is based on Formal Concepts Analysis (FCA) that it is makes semantical relations during the queries, and allows a reorganizing, in the shape…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-03-09 Abderrahim El Qadi , Driss Aboutajedine , Yassine Ennouary

Nowadays data sets are available in very complex and heterogeneous ways. Mining of such data collections is essential to support many real-world applications ranging from healthcare to marketing. In this work, we focus on the analysis of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-04-10 Aleksey Buzmakov , Elias Egho , Nicolas Jay , Sergei O. Kuznetsov , Amedeo Napoli , Chedy Raïssi

Formal Concept Analysis starts from a very basic data structure comprising objects and their attributes. Sometimes, however, it is beneficial to also define attributes of attributes, viz., meta-attributes. In this paper, we use Triadic…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Yingjian Wang

Data lakes are widely used to store extensive and heterogeneous datasets for advanced analytics. However, the unstructured nature of data in these repositories introduces complexities in exploiting them and extracting meaningful insights.…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Anes Bendimerad , Romain Mathonat , Youcef Remil , Mehdi Kaytoue

Modern order and lattice theory provides convenient mathematical tools for pattern mining, in particular for condensed irredundant representations of pattern spaces and their efficient generation. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) offers a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-06-10 Aimene Belfodil , Sergei Kuznetsov , Mehdi Kaytoue

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) offers several tools for qualitative data analysis. One possibility is to group objects that share common attributes together and get a concept lattice that describes the data. Quite often the size of this…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-09-26 Leonard Kwuida , Rostand Kuitché , Romuald Temgoua

Explainable AI (XAI) is critical for building trust in complex machine learning models, yet mainstream attribution methods often provide an incomplete, static picture of a model's final state. By collapsing a feature's role into a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Hamed Najafi , Dongsheng Luo , Jason Liu

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

Data is always at the center of the theoretical development and investigation of the applicability of formal concept analysis. It is therefore not surprising that a large number of data sets are repeatedly used in scholarly articles and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Tom Hanika , Robert Jäschke

Concept Hierarchies and Formal Concept Analysis are theoretically well grounded and largely experimented methods. They rely on line diagrams called Galois lattices for visualizing and analysing object-attribute sets. Galois lattices are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-03-12 Michel Crampes , Michel Plantié

The objectives of this research work which is intimately related to pattern discovery and management are threefold: (i) handle the problem of pattern manipulation by defining operations on patterns, (ii) study the problem of enriching and…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-02-25 Rokia Missaoui , Leonard Kwuida , Mohamed Quafafou , Jean Vaillancourt

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

Embedding large and high dimensional data into low dimensional vector spaces is a necessary task to computationally cope with contemporary data sets. Superseding latent semantic analysis recent approaches like word2vec or node2vec are well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Dominik Dürrschnabel , Tom Hanika , Maximilian Stubbemann

Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) allows to analyze binary data by deriving concepts and ordering them in lattices. One of the main goals of FCA is to enable humans to comprehend the information that is encapsulated in the data; however, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Dominik Dürrschnabel , Maren Koyda , Gerd Stumme

Our aim is to build a set of rules, such that reasoning over temporal dependencies within gene regulatory networks is possible. The underlying transitions may be obtained by discretizing observed time series, or they are generated based on…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2008-07-22 Johannes Wollbold , Reinhard Guthke , Bernhard Ganter

We seek to semantically describe a set of images, capturing both the attributes of single images and the variations within the set. Our procedure is analogous to Principle Component Analysis, in which the role of projection vectors is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Oded Hupert , Idan Schwartz , Lior Wolf

Conceptual Graphs (CG) are a graph-based knowledge representation and reasoning formalism; fuzzy Conceptual Graphs (fCG) constitute an extension that enriches their expressiveness, exploiting the fuzzy set theory so as to relax their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Adam Faci , Marie-Jeanne Lesot , Claire Laudy

A feature concept, the essence of the data-federative innovation process, is presented as a model of the concept to be acquired from data. A feature concept may be a simple feature, such as a single variable, but is more likely to be a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Yukio Ohsawa , Sae Kondo , Teruaki Hayashi

Comparison is a core task in visual analysis. Although there are numerous guidelines to help users design effective visualizations to aid known comparison tasks, there are few formalisms that define the semantics of comparison operations in…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Eugene Wu