Enhancing the business analysis function with semantics

  • Authors:
  • Sean O'Riain;Peter Spyns

  • Affiliations:
  • Semantic Infrastructure Research Group, European Software Centre, Galway, Ireland;STAR Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • ODBASE'06/OTM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 Confederated international conference on On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper outlines a prototypical work bench which offers semantically enhanced analytical capabilities to the business analyst The business case for such an environment is outlined and user scenario development used to illustrate system requirements Based upon ideas from meta-discourse and exploiting advances within the fields of ontology engineering, annotation, natural language processing and personal knowledge management, the Analyst Work Bench offers the automated identification of, and between business discourse items with possible propositional content The semantically annotated results are visually presented allowing personalised report path traversal marked up against the original source.