Generalized pattern extraction from concept lattices

In this paper, we show how the existence of taxonomies on objects and/or attributes can be used in Formal Concept Analysis to help discover generalized concepts. To that end, we analyze three generalization cases ( ?, ?, and α) and present different scenarios of a simultaneous generalization on both objects and attributes. We also discuss the cardinality of the generalized pattern set against the number of simple patterns produced from the initial data set.