A general ontology based multi-lingual multi-function multimedia intelligent system

A large variety of information processing applications deal with natural language texts. Many of these applications require extracting and processing the meanings of natural language texts, in addition to processing their syntactic forms. In order to extract meanings from texts and manipulate them, a natural language processing system must have a significant amount of knowledge about the world and the domain of discourse. However, different kinds of knowledge are required for different languages, for different functions, and for different media. We design a new general ontology based natural language processing system referred to as the multi-lingual multi-function multimedia intelligent system (MMM-IS). MMM-IS is a complex system with multiple functions that can deal with multiple languages and multiple media. The general ontology consists of a static layer and a dynamic layer, and provides a real world knowledge model for the natural language processing system. The paper presents the concept of MMM-IS and how to build MMM-IS for real applications.