Concept Formation by Incremental Conceptual Clustering

Abstract

Incremental conceptual clustering is an important area of machine learning. It is concerned with summarizing data in a form of concept hierarchies, which will eventually ease the problem of knowledge acquisition for knowledge-based systems. In this paper we have described INC, a program that generates a hierarchy of concept descriptions incrementally. INC searches a space of classification hierarchies in both top-down and bottom-up fashion. The system was evaluated along four dimensions and tested in two domains: universities and countries. 1.

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Text

Hadzikadic and Yun. "Concept Formation by Incremental Conceptual Clustering." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1989.

Markdown

[Hadzikadic and Yun. "Concept Formation by Incremental Conceptual Clustering." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1989.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1989/hadzikadic1989ijcai-concept/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{hadzikadic1989ijcai-concept,
  title     = {{Concept Formation by Incremental Conceptual Clustering}},
  author    = {Hadzikadic, Mirsad and Yun, David Y. Y.},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1989},
  pages     = {831-836},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1989/hadzikadic1989ijcai-concept/}
}