CTML:: a context transport mark-up language for formalization and verification of legal, medical, bureaucratic and safety procedures and protocols

Abstract

CPP-TRS [2] stands for Communicative Positioning Program - Text Representation Systems and is a visual language based upon a consistent set of dynamic visuals, which may be used in combination to represent qualitative reasoning about the nature of information packaged in textual format. A subset of CPP-TRS visuals, indicating those categories which create communicative context, precisely textual signs and textual symbols, have been recently isolated and converted into functions and commands of a mark-up language for documentation annotation. The newly derived special purpose language is called CTML, which means Context Transport Markup Language, [4] and the main objective to be achieved is accurate incorporation of contextual features into documentation. Communicative function carried by signs, together with communicative intention carried by symbols and communicative turn-taking carried by turn-taking symbols create context, which may be easily incorporated within each single instruction, that has been produced in textual format. Instructions displayed according to a set of categories selected as the most relevant ones will provide users with those interpretive clues which are needed to support accurate and effective understanding of each instructional sequence. Strategic information, such as legal, medical, bureaucratic text and safety protocols are, if designed and packaged according to the CTML standard [5] may be easily and effectively stored, retrieved, accessed, distributed and updated; therefore significantly enhancing power and speed in the search process as well.