Creating a Standardized Markup Language for Semantic Networks

This paper describes the creation of, and serves as a request for comment on the SemML language for markup of semantic relational information. The major goal of the SemML project is to create a language that can act as an inter-lingua for a variety of semantic computing applications. In this paper, we discuss the structure of the language, and the ways it which it allows for recursively defined complex concepts, maintains source links which allows for management of multiple world views, and deals with other issues such as temporal data and factual versus non-factual information.