About RubyFCA
Tools
RubyFCA is a toolkit for formal concept analysis (FCA). It consists of the following two command line programs:
- converts context data in the ConExp cxt format to Graphviz dot or other graphic formats such as jpg, png, eps, and pdf.
- converts pattern data in its original PLB format to Graphviz dot or other graphic formats such as jpg, png, eps, and pdf.
Requirement
Installation
$ sudo gem install rubyfca --source=http://gemcutter.org
$ sudo gem install rubyplb --source=http://gemcutter.org
for update
$ sudo gem update rubyfca --source=http://gemcutter.org
$ sudo gem update rubyplb --source=http://gemcutter.org
Related Links
The implementation of RubyFCA is partly based on Uta Priss’s FcaStone written in Perl.
References
Please cite the following work when you make use of Pattern Lattice Builder (PLB) in your research.
English
- Kow Kuroda and Yoichiro Hasebe (2009). Modeling (Human) Knowledge and Processing of Natural Language Using Pattern Lattice. 15th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Natural Language Processing.
Japanese
- 黒田 航・長谷部 陽一郎 (2009). Pattern Lattice を使った(ヒトの)言語知識と処理のモデル化. 言語処理学会第15回年次大会.
Contact
- Kow Kuroda (NICT) [Direction]
- Yoichiro Hasebe (Doshisha University) [Program]