Computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data

A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data, comprising the steps of:

• (a) storing or accessing in a non-transitory storage medium a structured machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable processable language which is not a natural language;
• (b) receiving a sequence of words in a natural language;
• (c) automatically translating that sequence of words into the machine-readable processable language by identifying or generating structured, machine-readable representations that semantically represent a meaning of the sequence of words;
• in which the structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to the machine-readable processable language comprises semantic nodes and passages;
• and in which a semantic node represents an entity and is itself represented by an identifier;
• and a passage is either (i) a semantic node or (ii) a combination of semantic nodes;
• and where machine-readable meaning comes from choice of semantic nodes and the way they are combined and ordered as passages;
• the method including the step of translating from the structured-machine readable representation to the natural language, wherein when translating from the structured-machine readable representation to the natural language, the machine-readable processable language includes self-referential statements and meta-linguistic statements, and the machine-readable processable language is processed to vary generated translations between alternatives that are substantially semantically equivalent to create varied and fresh responses for the benefit of human users.