An intelligent iconic system to generate and to interpret visual languages

Using the SIL-Icon compiler, whereby a general-purpose iconic system is specialized by expert provision of domain-specific grammar and semantics to define the individual visual language, a learning interface module (LIM) has been designed allowing the nonexpert user to utilize the system and define his or her own visual language providing only sample sentences from which the LIM autonomously constructs the domain-specific aspects of the language. A brief description of the SIL-Icon compiler is presented. An overview is given of the whole learning iconic system, and all the principal concepts and modules are detailed