PRISS

Language and Logic
THE FORMALIZATION OF SEMANTIC RELATIONS IN RELATIONAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS

Introductory course

UTA PRISS

School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University

First week
priss@uta.lib.indiana.edu

Course description

Formal Concept Analysis has been developed at the University of Darmstadt, Germany as a formal method for data analysis for more than 17 years. Relational Concept Analysis is an extension of Formal Concept Analysis hich includes further relational structures. Besides the applications of Formal and Relational Concept Analysis to the fields of computer science, social science, information science and others, the applications to semantics may be the most interesting. They allow an analysis of semantic structures that relates to the Aristotelian theory of definition, Peirce's conceptual triangle, Frege's "Sinn" and "Bedeutung", and modern knowledge bases and semantic networks.

The course will start with an introduction to Formal and Relational Concept Analysis. The specific requirements of the semantic applications, which include the formal definition of semantic relations, the analysis of implementations of semantic relations, consistency of relations, comparison to semantic networks, and others will be discussed in detail.

Prerequisites
None

Literature

Selected Bibliography on Formal and Relational Concept Analysis (further references can be provided).

B. Ganter, R. Wille, and K. E. Wolff (eds.). Beitraege zur Begriffsanalyse. B. I.-Wissenschaftsverlag, Mannheim, 1987.
B. Ganter and R. Wille. Formal Concept Analysis: Mathematical Foundations. Springer, Heidelberg, (to be published in Summer 1997).
Translation of: Formale Begriffsanalyse: Mathematische Grundlagen. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1996.
U. Priss. The formalization of WordNet by methods of relational concept analysis. In: C. Fellbaum (ed.), WordNet - An electronic lexical database and some of its applications. MIT-Press, 1997.

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Language and Logic	THE FORMALIZATION OF SEMANTIC RELATIONS IN RELATIONAL CONCEPT ANALYSIS
Introductory course	UTA PRISS School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University
First week	priss@uta.lib.indiana.edu
Course description	Formal Concept Analysis has been developed at the University of Darmstadt, Germany as a formal method for data analysis for more than 17 years. Relational Concept Analysis is an extension of Formal Concept Analysis hich includes further relational structures. Besides the applications of Formal and Relational Concept Analysis to the fields of computer science, social science, information science and others, the applications to semantics may be the most interesting. They allow an analysis of semantic structures that relates to the Aristotelian theory of definition, Peirce's conceptual triangle, Frege's "Sinn" and "Bedeutung", and modern knowledge bases and semantic networks. The course will start with an introduction to Formal and Relational Concept Analysis. The specific requirements of the semantic applications, which include the formal definition of semantic relations, the analysis of implementations of semantic relations, consistency of relations, comparison to semantic networks, and others will be discussed in detail.
Prerequisites	None
Literature	Selected Bibliography on Formal and Relational Concept Analysis (further references can be provided). B. Ganter, R. Wille, and K. E. Wolff (eds.). Beitraege zur Begriffsanalyse. B. I.-Wissenschaftsverlag, Mannheim, 1987. B. Ganter and R. Wille. Formal Concept Analysis: Mathematical Foundations. Springer, Heidelberg, (to be published in Summer 1997). Translation of: Formale Begriffsanalyse: Mathematische Grundlagen. Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg, 1996. U. Priss. The formalization of WordNet by methods of relational concept analysis. In: C. Fellbaum (ed.), WordNet - An electronic lexical database and some of its applications. MIT-Press, 1997.