Conceptual Structures in Practice

Presenting perspectives from both the conceptual graph and FCA communities, this volume takes you through the basic yet nontrivial task of establishing conceptual relations as the foundation for research in knowledge representation and knowledge mining. After providing the formal background in FCA and conceptual graphs, it describes various software tools for analysis and computation, including the ToscanaJ suite. Written by the original visionaries of the field, the next section discusses the history and future directions of conceptual structures. The final chapters explore prominent application areas in computer science, including text analysis, web semantics, and intelligent systems.