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FCAView Tab plug-in provides Protégé-2000 users a novel
way to visualize their ontologies using the formal concept analysis
(FCA) technique. FCA, a mathematical
approach to data analysis based on lattice theory, has been advocated to
support ontology building in several studies. Generally speaking, there are
three elements to form a formal context: a set of formal objects, a set of
formal attributes and the binary relations between them. The formal context
is usually formed using a cross table, and graphically it also can be
visualized using a lattice diagram. The two ways contain the same information
about the formal context. In the FCAView
Tab, we hooked the protégé-2000 with an open source software Concept Explorer version
1.2. We developed two versions of visualization tools as follows. 1) FCAView Tab for core Protégé ontology 2) OWLFCAView Tab for Protégé OWL ontology Level of Support The FCAView Tab plug-in is still
under active development. We would like to obtain any comments and advices
from you. Any questions about
the tab, please contact to: Guoqian
Jiang ,
Department of Medical Informatics, Hokkaido University Graduate School of
Medicine. License The FCAView Tab plug-in will
become an open source soon. References Jiang G, et al.
Context-based ontology building support for clinical domains using formal
concept analysis. Int J Med Inform. 2003 Aug;71(1):71-81. (PubMed
citation) Jiang G, et al.
Concept-oriented view generation for clinical data using formal concept
analysis. Proceedings of JCMI2004, Jiang G, et al. FCAViewTab: A
concept-oriented view generation tool for clinical data using formal concept
analysis. Proceedings of the 8th International |