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Visualizing Concepts with Euler Diagrams

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We present a new ontology visualization tool, that uses Euler diagrams to represent concepts. The use of Euler diagrams as a visualisation tool allows the visual syntax to be well matched to its meaning.

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Burton, J., Stapleton, G., Howse, J., Chapman, P. (2014). Visualizing Concepts with Euler Diagrams. In: Dwyer, T., Purchase, H., Delaney, A. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8578. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44043-8_9

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