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A Contextual-Logic Extension of TOSCANA

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Conceptual Structures: Logical, Linguistic, and Computational Issues (ICCS 2000)

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The aim of this paper is to indicate how TOSCANA may be extended to allow graphical representations not only of concept lattices but also of concept graphs in the sense of Contextual Logic. The contextual-logic extension of TOSCANA requires the logical scaling of conceptual and relational scales for which we propose the Peircean Algebraic Logic as reconstructed by R. W. Burch. As graphical representations we recommend, besides labelled line diagrams of concept lattices and Sowa’s diagrams of conceptual graphs, particular information maps for utilizing background knowledge as much as possible. Our considerations are illustrated by a small information system about the domestic flights in Austria.

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  1. School of Information Technology, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, PMB 50, Gold Coast Mail Centre, QLD, 9726, Australia

    Peter Eklund & Bernd Groh

  2. Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schloßgartenstr. 7, D-64289, Darmstadt

    Gerd Stumme & Rudolf Wille

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  1. Institute of Algebra, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

    Bernhard Ganter

  2. Département d’informatique et de génie logiciel, Université Laval, Pavillon Adrien-Pouliot, 1065, av. de la Médecine, G1V 0A6, Quebec City, Québec, Canada

    Guy W. Mineau

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Eklund, P., Groh, B., Stumme, G., Wille, R. (2000). A Contextual-Logic Extension of TOSCANA. In: Ganter, B., Mineau, G.W. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Logical, Linguistic, and Computational Issues. ICCS 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1867. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10722280_31

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