Definition-based knowledge-base for education, management and translation

Abstract

Students may not understand the meaning of the main concepts and the difference between closely related terms. Managers and employees may not understand the meaning of the actions they have to take, the acts, facts, and documents they are dealing with. As a result, managers make decisions based on intuition, translators do translations according to their individual preferences, employees implement the decisions as they want. All this involves high costs and leads to bad results. A definition-based approach is the key to success in education, management, translation, and in all aspects of life. Management decision support systems are expensive to develop, besides, they imply maintenance costs. Therefore, at a lower level, a definition-based knowledge-base can be the first step to decision-making optimisation.