Semiotic decision making system for responding to natural language queries and components thereof

A triadic semiotic processing module for a semiotic decision making system, wherein a training corpus of information in the form of sequential sets of elements is used to create a database which is thereafter used to make decisions relating to queries input in the same type of elements, comprising:

• a knowledge base for storing data representations of analyses of subsets of predefined sets of N lineally-related elements where each element represents a node of a multi-node tree form having a single highest level node and a plurality n of lowest level nodes where each lowest level node is associated with a single higher level node and where each node which is not a lowest level node is associated with left and right lower level nodes whereby the total number of nodes N is equal to 2n−1;
• said knowledge base data representations comprising predicates and elemental and non-elemental acts wherein:
• each predicate is associated with a class of one or more acts such that each act is associated with only one class of acts;
• each elemental act represents a set element and defines a single act class of a corresponding elemental predicate;
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• each non-elemental act represents a sequence of a case predicate followed by a result predicate in either a left or right direction, such that all non-elemental acts are recursively defined as representations of one or more subsets of lineally-related elements of a predefined set and each predicate represents the subsets of lineally-related elements represented by each act within its associated class of acts where the result predicate of any given non-elemental act having a left direction represents a subset of elements having a highest node element which node element is the left lower node associated with one of the nodes represented by the case predicate of the given non-elemental act and where the result predicate of any given non-elemental act having a right direction represents a subset of elements having a highest node element which node element is the right lower node associated with one of the nodes represented by the case predicate of the given non-elemental acts;
• an input for receiving for receiving tree form representations of set elements such that the lowest level nodes of said tree forms represent individual sets of a training corpus and storing a representation of each distinct tree form as an elemental act record in said knowledge base;
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• a processor associated with said knowledge base which recursively processes said knowledge base records by evaluating the relationship and frequency of occurrence of sets of elements based upon the lineal relationship of those sets of elements as received by said input to generate predicate records and non-elemental act records based thereon which are then stored in said knowledge base.