FCAIR 2012 Formal Concept Analysis Meets Information Retrieval Workshop co-located with the 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013) March 24, 2013, Moscow, Russia

International audienceFormal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematically well-founded theory aimed at data analysis and classifiation. The area came into being in the early 1980s and has since then spawned over 10000 scientific publications and a variety of practically deployed tools. FCA allows one to build from a data table with objects in rows and attributes in columns a taxonomic data structure called concept lattice, which can be used for many purposes, especially for Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval. The Formal Concept Analysis Meets Information Retrieval (FCAIR) workshop collocated with the 35th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2013) was intended, on the one hand, to attract researchers from FCA community to a broad discussion of FCA-based research on information retrieval, and, on the other hand, to promote ideas, models, and methods of FCA in the community of Information Retrieval

Variational Learning for Finite Inverted Dirichlet Mixture Models and Its Applications

Clustering is an important step in data mining, machine learning, computer vision and image processing. It is the process of assigning similar objects to the same subset. Among available clustering techniques, finite mixture models have been remarkably used, since they have the ability to consider prior knowledge about the data. Employing mixture models requires, choosing a standard distribution, determining the number of mixture components and estimating the model parameters. Currently, the combination of Gaussian distribution, as the standard distribution, and Expectation Maximization (EM), as the parameter estimator, has been widely used with mixture models. However, each of these choices has its own limitations. In this thesis, these limitations are discussed and addressed via defining a variational inference framework for finite inverted Dirichlet mixture model, which is able to provide a better capability in modeling multivariate positive data, that appear frequently in many real world applications. Finite inverted Dirichlet mixtures enable us to model high-dimensional, both symmetric and asymmetric data. Compared to the conventional expectation maximization (EM) algorithm, the variational approach has the following advantages: it is computationally more efficient, it converges fast, and is able to estimate the parameters and the number of the mixture model components, automatically and simultaneously. The experimental results validate the presented approach on different synthetic datasets and shows its performance for two interesting and challenging real world applications, namely natural scene categorization and human activity classification

Eighth International Workshop "What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence?" (FCA4AI at ECAI 2020)

International audienceProceedings of the 8th International Workshop "What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence?" (FCA4AI 2020)co-located with 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 29, 202

9th International Workshop "What can FCA do for Artificial Intelligence?" (FCA4AI 2021)

International audienceFormal Concept Analysis (FCA) is a mathematically well-founded theory aimed at classification and knowledge discovery that can be used for many purposes in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The objective of the ninth edition of the FCA4AI workshop (see http://www.fca4ai.hse.ru/) is to investigate several issues such as: how can FCA support various AI activities (knowledge discovery, knowledge engineering, machine learning, data mining, information retrieval, recommendation...), how can FCA be extended in order to help AI researchers to solve new and complex problems in their domains, and how FCA can play a role in current trends in AI such as explainable AI and fairness of algorithms in decision making.The workshop was held in co-location with IJCAI 2021, Montréal, Canada, August, 28 2021