InterLingua: a multilanguage business information center

The InterLingua information processing system is proposed as a practical approach to providing analysis and access to large sets of multilanguage publications pertinent to a given industry and a particular world region. An existing natural language text analysis system (NLTAS) provides the base technology. The NLTAS facilitates construction of knowledge bases of the ideas that occur in verbatim text. The system is based on characterizing expressions of ideas as patterns of words. The NLTAS is language independent for all languages that have a finite set of characters. These knowledge bases can then be used to (i) partition large volumes of text into sets of text on narrower topics, (ii) generate intelligent indices to large sets of multilanguage documents without the high cost of verbatim translation, (iii) provide the basis for machine-aided verbatim translation services, and (iv) serve as the statistical basis for the tracking of trends in the given industry