Semantic unification
Encyclopedia
Semantic unification, in philosophy
, linguistics
, and computer science
, is the process of unifying lexically different concept representations that are judged to have the same semantic content (i.e., meaning).
Semantic unification has a long history in fields like philosophy
and linguistics
. In computer science
it has been used in different research areas like grammar unification
, and Prolog extensions
.
Semantic unification has since been applied to the fields of business processes and workflow management.
In the earliest 90’s Charles Petri introduced the term of semantic unification for business models, later references could be found in
and later formalized in Fawsy Bendeck's PhD thesis
.
Petri introduced the term “Pragmatic Semantic Unification” to refer to the approaches in which the results are tested against a running application using the semantic mappings. In this pragmatic approach, the accuracy of the mapping is not as important as its usability.
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
, and computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
, is the process of unifying lexically different concept representations that are judged to have the same semantic content (i.e., meaning).
Semantic unification has a long history in fields like philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
and linguistics
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
. In computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
it has been used in different research areas like grammar unification
, and Prolog extensions
.
Semantic unification has since been applied to the fields of business processes and workflow management.
In the earliest 90’s Charles Petri introduced the term of semantic unification for business models, later references could be found in
and later formalized in Fawsy Bendeck's PhD thesis
.
Petri introduced the term “Pragmatic Semantic Unification” to refer to the approaches in which the results are tested against a running application using the semantic mappings. In this pragmatic approach, the accuracy of the mapping is not as important as its usability.