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Decision tables are a widely used knowledge management tool in the decision making process. Ambiguity and conceptual reasoning difficulties arise while designing large decision tables in a collaborative environment. We introduce the notion of Semantic Decision Table (SDT), which enhances a decision table with explicit decision semantics by annotating it properly with a domain ontology. In this paper, we focus on the SDT construction process. First, we map decision items to the ontology by building a rooted tree of decision binary facts and visualize it in a scalable manner. Formal ontological roles are used during this mapping process. Then, we commit the decision rules to the mapping results with a high level pseudo-natural language to ground their semantic. We illustrate with an SDT example from the domain of human resource management.
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Tang, Y., Meersman, R. (2007). On Constructing Semantic Decision Tables. In: Wagner, R., Revell, N., Pernul, G. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4653. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74469-6_4
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