Off to New Shores -- Conceptual Knowledge Discovery and
Processing
Intl. J. Human-Comuter Studies (IJHCS), 59 (3):
287-325 (September 2003)Abstract
In the last years, the main orientation of Formal Concept Analysis
(FCA) has turned from mathematics towards computer science. This
article provides a review of this new orientation and analyzes why
and how FCA and computer science attracted each other. It
discusses FCA as a knowledge representation formalism using five
knowledge representation principles provided by Davis, Shrobe, and
Szolovits (1993). It then studies how and why
mathematics-based researchers got attracted by computer science.
We will argue for continuing this trend by integrating the two
research areas FCA and Ontology Engineering.
The second part of the article discusses three lines of research
which witness the new orientation of Formal Concept Analysis: FCA
as a conceptual clustering technique and its application for
supporting the merging of ontologies; the efficient computation of
association rules and the structuring of the results; and the
visualization and management of conceptual hierarchies and
ontologies including its application in an email management
system.
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