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.