The “Narrative Knowledge Representation Language”, a knowledge-based approach for representing the “meaning” of textual documents

The “Narrative Knowledge Representation Language” (NKRL) has been expressly created to provide a standard, language-independent description of the semantic content (the “meaning”) of complex, natural language “narrative” documents (news stories, telex reports, corporate documentation, regulations and normative texts, intelligence messages, etc.). After having introduced the four components (specialised sublanguages) of NKRL, we will give some examples of the possibilities offered by this language with respect to the optimal coding of the meaning of textual documents