Formal concept analysis in knowledge discovery: A survey

Authors
Publication date 2010
Host editors
  • M. Croitoru
  • S. Ferré
  • D. Lukose
Book title Conceptual Structures: From Information to Intelligence
Book subtitle 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2010, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, July 26-30, 2010 : proceedings
ISBN
  • 9783642141966
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9783642141973
Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Event 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures (ICCS 2010), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
Pages (from-to) 139-153
Publisher Berlin: Springer
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam Business School Research Institute (ABS-RI)
Abstract
In this paper, we analyze the literature on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) using FCA. We collected 702 papers published between 2003-2009 mentioning Formal Concept Analysis in the abstract. We developed a knowledge browsing environment to support our literature analysis process. The pdf-files containing the papers were converted to plain text and indexed by Lucene using a thesaurus containing terms related to FCA research. We use the visualization capabilities of FCA to explore the literature, to discover and conceptually represent the main research topics in the FCA community. As a case study, we zoom in on the 140 papers on using FCA in knowledge discovery and data mining and give an extensive overview of the contents of this literature.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14197-3_15
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