An invoice — its semantics in the eyes of the beholder

A domain of semantic analysis is presented: invoices. This domain has been successfully tackled by us with a practical system. The analysis of scenario and system yield, first, ideas how to decompose a scenario or domain and, second, concepts resulting from the decomposition. It is then shown how to further develop the concepts found, and how to enter into a system design and implementation. This paper does not present implementation details nor screenshots (they have been presented elsewhere), and it does not discuss how our system is configured in detail for a given application. Instead, it shows a higher level, a “greatest common divisor” of semantic analysis projects. All results, ideas and concepts, are potentially useful also in other scenarios.