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Introduction to Formal Concept Analysis and Its Applications in Information Retrieval and Related Fields (1703.02819v1)
Published 8 Mar 2017 in cs.IR, cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.DM, and stat.ML
Abstract: This paper is a tutorial on Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) and its applications. FCA is an applied branch of Lattice Theory, a mathematical discipline which enables formalisation of concepts as basic units of human thinking and analysing data in the object-attribute form. Originated in early 80s, during the last three decades, it became a popular human-centred tool for knowledge representation and data analysis with numerous applications. Since the tutorial was specially prepared for RuSSIR 2014, the covered FCA topics include Information Retrieval with a focus on visualisation aspects, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Text Mining and several others.