Automatic Document Exchange: Semantic Inference on a Received Tabular Document

To support automatic document exchange, one essential issue is to maintain the consistency of semantic interpretation of the exchanged documents between any two autonomous communities, where the document sender and receiver have no misunderstanding in using the exchanged documents. However, different document systems often lead to heterogeneous documents in terms of syntax and semantics, which are difficult to make consistent interpretation and reasonable inference from one context to another. This paper proposes a novel tabular document exchange framework consisting of a tabular document model for semantic consistency maintenance of exchanged documents and a semantic inference scheme for automatic new document creation.