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Compared to other product lifecycle phases, the development of product documentation and technical manuals in particular, is an area currently undersupported by tools. This is in contrast with the benefits associated with the production of high quality product documentation, and the effort involved to produce it. This paper addresses this problem by proposing three complementary semantic-based methods for modeling product manuals. The first approach is based on using semantically linked information objects. The second approach focuses on abstracting the intended purpose, user tasks and the functional characteristics of the product data elements. The third approach uses ontologies to capture the semantic complexity of the product support domain.
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Setchi, R., Lagos, N., Huneiti, A. (2007). Semantic Modeling of Product Manuals. In: Apolloni, B., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4693. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74827-4_145
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