TY - JOUR
T1 - A trichotomic approach to concept capture and representation
T2 - With its application to library data mining
AU - Minami, Toshiro
AU - Hirokawa, Sachio
AU - Baba, Kensuke
AU - Amano, Eriko
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), 24500318, 2013.
Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - The aim of this chapter is twofold. Firstly, we propose a method of specifying the concept that is too hard to describe in an exact way by a word or a phrase, by setting up the “relative distances" from three key concepts; which we call a trichotomic approach to concept capture and representation, or description, in an approximate means. It is important and interesting that we can choose not only the key words but also other three “keys" such as patrons, books, concepts, objects or others. Then we arrange the objects of study according to the relative distances from these three keys, and investigate how these objects are distributed. Secondly, we demonstrate the usefulness of trichotomic approach through a couple of case studies applied to library’s loan record analysis. In these case studies, we discuss and compare the methods of choosing three keys, then we show how the trichotomic representation method is applied to the real data analysis. From these case studies, we are convinced of its high potential and importance as a visualization tool of the results of data analysis in general.
AB - The aim of this chapter is twofold. Firstly, we propose a method of specifying the concept that is too hard to describe in an exact way by a word or a phrase, by setting up the “relative distances" from three key concepts; which we call a trichotomic approach to concept capture and representation, or description, in an approximate means. It is important and interesting that we can choose not only the key words but also other three “keys" such as patrons, books, concepts, objects or others. Then we arrange the objects of study according to the relative distances from these three keys, and investigate how these objects are distributed. Secondly, we demonstrate the usefulness of trichotomic approach through a couple of case studies applied to library’s loan record analysis. In these case studies, we discuss and compare the methods of choosing three keys, then we show how the trichotomic representation method is applied to the real data analysis. From these case studies, we are convinced of its high potential and importance as a visualization tool of the results of data analysis in general.
KW - Concept representation
KW - Library data analysis
KW - Library marketing
KW - Loan/circulation records
KW - Trichotomic/triangular representation
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-05717-0_5
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-05717-0_5
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84926650464
SN - 1860-949X
VL - 553
SP - 61
EP - 75
JO - Studies in Computational Intelligence
JF - Studies in Computational Intelligence
ER -