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Firstly, two pairs of adjoint mappings are defined in intuitionistic fuzzy formal contexts. It is verified that both pairs of adjoint mappings form Galois connections. Secondly, two types of intuitionistic fuzzy concept lattices are constructed. After that, we also present the main theorems and propositions of the intuitionistic fuzzy concept lattices. Thirdly, we deeply discuss the attribute characteristics for type-1 generalized one-sided intuitionistic fuzzy concept lattice. Furthermore, a discernibility matrix-based algorithm is proposed for attribute reduction and the effectiveness of this algorithm is demonstrated by a practical example. 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