| Input: Candidates Concept List, equivalentConcept |
| Output: Candidates Concept List |
| //Remove too specified descendant concepts |
| For (concept in DescendantList){ |
| If (numOfsubsume(concept) == 0) { |
| For (Aconcept in Parents(concept)) { |
| If ((Aconcept != equivalentConcept) |
| && (numOfsubsume(Aconcpet) <= |
| threshold)) { |
| Pop_DescendantList(concept); |
| Push_TempList(concept); |
| } |
| } |
| } |
| } |
| //Remove the rarely used ancestor concepts |
| For (concept in TempList) { |
| For (Aconcept in AncestorList) { |
| If ((Subsumption_Check(Aconcept, |
| equivalentConcept) != true) |
| && (Subsumption_Check(Aconcept, concept) == |
| true)) { |
| IncreaseCount(Aconcept); |
| } |
| } |
| } |
| For (Aconcept in AncestorList) { |
| If (Count(Aconcept) > threshold) { |
| Pop_AncestorList(Aconcept); |
| Push_TempList(concept); |
| } |
| } |
| //Remove the independent descendant concepts |
| For (concept in DescendantList){ |
| If ((numOfsubsume(concept) == 0) |
| && (numOfsubsume(Parents(concept)) <= threshold)) |
| { |
| Pop_DescendantList(concept); |
| Push_TempList(concept); |
| } |
| } |
| //Hold the transitive concept |
| For (concept in TempList) { |
| If (inAncestorList(Ancestors(concept)) |
| && inDescendantList(Descendants(concept)) { |
| If ((Subsumption_Check(concept, |
| equivalentConcept)) { |
| Push_AncestorList(concept); |
| }else{ |
| Push_DescendantList(concept); |
| } |
| } |
| } |
