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Formal Concept Analysis in Knowledge Discovery: A Survey

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Conceptual Structures: From Information to Intelligence (ICCS 2010)

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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.

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    Jonas Poelmans, Stijn Viaene & Guido Dedene

  2. Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Vlamingenstraat 83, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

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  3. Amsterdam-Amstelland Police, James Wattstraat 84, 1000 CG, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  4. Universiteit van Amsterdam Business School, Roetersstraat 11, 1018 WB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Poelmans, J., Elzinga, P., Viaene, S., Dedene, G. (2010). Formal Concept Analysis in Knowledge Discovery: A Survey. In: Croitoru, M., Ferré, S., Lukose, D. (eds) Conceptual Structures: From Information to Intelligence. ICCS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6208. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14197-3_15

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