Using Concept Lattices for Visual Navigation Assistance in Large Databases: Application to a Patent Database
Résumé
The increasing size of indexed document sets that are digitally available emphasizes the crucial need for more suitable representation tools than the traditional textual list of results. Many efforts have been made to develop graphical tools able to provide both overall and local views of a collection when focusing on a particular subset of documents. However an overcrowded visual representation may not be really useful to users if they are not guided in their navigation process. Our goal is to combine the classification features of FCA and existing visualization techniques to suggest navigation paths in a visual re-presentation through meaningful and progressive focuses. The test collection used for our study is an indexed patent base provided by our industrial partner.