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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.
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O’Riain, S., Spyns, P. (2006). Enhancing the Business Analysis Function with Semantics. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4275. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11914853_50
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