Semantic processing for text mapping onto information space

This paper reports on an approach which maps documents onto an ontology-based information space in order to provide support for machine-mediated communication. First, a composite layered structure, based on a predicate-argument formalism, is proposed to provide a representation of the propositions that make up the text. We then briefly outline an approach for the automatic construction of such a structure from instructional text in the domain of physics, initially focusing on electrical circuit.