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Restructuring Help Systems Using Formal Concept Analysis

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Formal Concept Analysis (ICFCA 2005)

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This paper extends standard help system technology to demonstrate the suitability of Formal Concept Analysis in displaying, searching and navigating help content. The paper introduces a method for building suitable scales directly from the help system index by computing a keyword extension set. The keyword extension technique is generalisable in any document collection where a hand-crafted index of terms is available.

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Eklund, P., Wormuth, B. (2005). Restructuring Help Systems Using Formal Concept Analysis. In: Ganter, B., Godin, R. (eds) Formal Concept Analysis. ICFCA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3403. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32262-7_9

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