The book aims to encourage multiple perspective reading attitudes, which are meant to trigger and inspire new ways of viewing and engineering information. An innovative linguistic theory as well as a new model for text generation and text understanding are illustrated. The linguistic theory, enhanced by a novel artificial intelligence-based approach, will help readers to acquire information engineering skills and may be implemented in the design of knowledge management systems.

Graziella Tonfoni is Professor of Computational Linguistics at Bologna University, Italy.

Lakhmi Jain is Professor of Knowledge-Based Engineering at the University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia.

Chapter One. Introduction to a new way of looking at language and information
Chapter Two. The physics of language
Chapter Three. Introduction to the communicative positioning program and text representation systems (CPP-TRS)
Chapter Four. CTML: A mark-up language for annotating context sensitive documentation
Chapter Five. The making of specialized knowledge through metaphors and analogies