A Survey on how Description Logic Ontologies Benefit from Formal Concept Analysis
arXiv:1107.2822
Abstract
Although the notion of a concept as a collection of objects sharing certain properties, and the notion of a conceptual hierarchy are fundamental to both Formal Concept Analysis and Description Logics, the ways concepts are described and obtained differ significantly between these two research areas. Despite these differences, there have been several attempts to bridge the gap between these two formalisms, and attempts to apply methods from one field in the other. The present work aims to give an overview on the research done in combining Description Logics and Formal Concept Analysis.
Invited paper that appeared in the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications, (CLA 2010)