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The notions of objects and attributes are essential to knowledge representation. Rudolf Wille’s concept lattices group objects and attributes into concepts, with concepts organized in a lattice, so that some concepts are subconcepts of others. This paper applies certain aspects of type theory to concept lattices in order better to facilitate the representation of knowledge inRoget’s International Thesaurus. Of particular interest is a formal analysis of functions providing concept lattices with a way of representing procedures and actions that currently are not present in the thesaurus.
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Brady, J. An examination of concept lattices, types, and functions inRoget’s International Thesaurus . Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers 25, 328–332 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204520
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03204520