Semantic Mapping of Definitions for Constructing Ontologies of Business Processes

The paper grounds the topicality of developing natural language (NL) processing systems for constructing business processes models, in particular, their ontologies. It introduces an original algorithm of semantic mapping of the notions’ definitions in NL (on the example of English language). A definition in NL is transformed into its semantic representation being an expression of an SK-language (standard knowledge language). The class of SK-languages is introduced in the author’s theory of K-representations (knowledge representations). The suggested algorithm AlgSemDef1 is able to process the notions’ definitions including attribute clauses, infinitives, the logical connectives ‘not", "and’, "or".