Patent ID: 7428517

Claim:
A computer controlled method for identifying concepts and relations in different types of data pertaining to at least one application domain, said data including at least one of a group consisting of linguistic data, image data, video data, sound data, control data, measurement data, olfactive and tactile data, said method comprising the steps of: defining concepts associated with an application domain, a concept specifies an amount of information relating to said application domain and is expressed in a logical dimension and a perceptual dimension; defining relations between said concepts, a relation specifies an informative association between concepts of said application domain in at least one of said logical dimension and said perceptual dimension; defining concept-relation-concept (CRC) patterns for said application domain, in said logical and perceptual dimension; acquiring data pertaining to said application domain; and identifying concepts, relations and CRC patterns in said acquired data in said logical and perceptual dimensions using said concepts, relations and CRC-patterns defined for said application domain when performing a service selected from the group consisting of a data categorization service, a data visualization service, a data distribution service, a decision support service, a data search service, a data summarization service, a data translation service, and a data transformation service.