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Intelligent business knowledge management using topic maps

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We present a method, complete with case study, for capturing and managing the information stored in business transactions based on the widely used UBL. Where conventional wisdom would use a RDBMS-based approach, we use Topic Maps as the knowledge representation format and show how by effectively leveraging its features we can efficiently navigate, discover and retrieve content in ways not possible with the conventional approach.

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COMPUTE '09: Proceedings of the 2nd Bangalore Annual Compute Conference
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  1. UBL
  2. business documents
  3. business intelligence
  4. case study
  5. information retrieval
  6. knowledge representation
  7. querying
  8. topic maps
  9. translator

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