<s>
IEML	B-Application
(	O
Information	O
Economy	O
Meta-Language	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
Open	B-License
source	I-License
artificial	O
method	O
to	O
represent	O
the	O
semantic	B-Application
content	O
of	O
a	O
linguistic	O
sign	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
designed	O
by	O
Pierre	O
Lévy	O
as	O
an	O
Open	B-Application
collaboration	I-Application
project	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
his	O
works	O
on	O
Collective	O
intelligence	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
encode	O
meaning	O
in	O
a	O
computer	O
readable	O
way	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
goal	O
of	O
the	O
IEML	B-Application
system	O
is	O
to	O
make	O
real-world	O
data	O
machine-readable	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
proposes	O
a	O
standard	O
representation	O
that	O
enables	O
the	O
mapping	O
of	O
semantic	B-Application
representations	O
with	O
the	O
data	O
in	O
a	O
computer-friendly	O
way	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IEML	B-Application
's	O
design	O
starts	O
with	O
a	O
small	O
amount	O
of	O
primary	O
concepts	O
are	O
arranged	O
in	O
a	O
matrix	B-Architecture
and	O
composed	O
together	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
create	O
new	O
and	O
slightly	O
more	O
complex	O
concepts	O
,	O
which	O
can	O
be	O
arranged	O
in	O
a	O
new	O
matrix	B-Architecture
and	O
composed	O
to	O
form	O
even	O
more	O
complex	O
ones	O
,	O
and	O
so	O
on	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
arrangement	O
in	O
the	O
form	O
of	O
a	O
matrix	B-Architecture
and	O
its	O
fractal	O
design	O
make	O
the	O
representation	O
easy	O
to	O
manipulate	O
,	O
quick	O
when	O
calculating	O
the	O
distance	O
between	O
concepts	O
and	O
simple	O
to	O
encode	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Each	O
element	O
in	O
each	O
matrix	B-Architecture
has	O
a	O
unique	O
representation	O
that	O
easily	O
indicates	O
both	O
its	O
location	O
and	O
content	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IEML	B-Application
bypasses	O
important	O
challenges	O
of	O
the	O
Semantic	B-Application
web	O
and	O
other	O
semantic	B-Application
representation	O
systems	O
such	O
as	O
vagueness	O
,	O
uncertainty	O
,	O
inconsistency	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
of	O
the	O
challenges	O
for	O
IEML	B-Application
include	O
readability	O
,	O
annotation	O
and	O
adoption	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Systems	O
that	O
use	O
IEML	B-Application
must	O
deal	O
with	O
these	O
issues	O
in	O
order	O
to	O
work	O
as	O
intended	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Still	O
,	O
the	O
metadata	O
of	O
each	O
element	O
allows	O
user-suggested	O
translations	O
from	O
the	O
IEML	B-Application
concept	O
to	O
any	O
given	O
natural	O
language	O
.	O
</s>
