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Concept exploration — A tool for creating and exploring conceptual hierarchies

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Conceptual Structures: Fulfilling Peirce's Dream (ICCS 1997)

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Concept exploration is a knowledge acquisition tool for interactively exploring the hierarchical structure of finitely generated lattices. Applications comprise the support of knowledge engineers by constructing a type lattice for conceptual graphs, and the exploration of large formal contexts in formal concept analysis.

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  1. Fachbereich Mathematik, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Schloßgartenstr. 7, D-64289, Darmstadt

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Dickson Lukose Harry Delugach Mary Keeler Leroy Searle John Sowa

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Stumme, G. (1997). Concept exploration — A tool for creating and exploring conceptual hierarchies. In: Lukose, D., Delugach, H., Keeler, M., Searle, L., Sowa, J. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Fulfilling Peirce's Dream. ICCS 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0027880

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