Semantic unification

[1] Semantic unification has since been applied to the fields of business processes and workflow management.

In the early 1990s Charles Petri[full citation needed] at Stanford University[full citation needed] introduced the term "semantic unification" for business models, later references could be found in[2] and later formalized in Fawsy Bendeck's dissertation.

[3] Petri introduced the term 'pragmatic semantic unification" to refer to the approaches in which the results are tested against a running application using the semantic mappings.

[4] In this pragmatic approach, the accuracy of the mapping is not as important as its usability.

In general, semantic unification as used in business processes is employed to find a common unified concept that matches two lexicalized expressions into the same interpretation.