If word processors could know the words meanings...

If complex content get be built out of atomic pieces (of content?), how should the complex content become clear, ever?

I think about a word processor. The whole document becomes built out of words, and these out of letters. There is no machine understandable content attached to the words; the words remain just strings of letters. The machine has no idea about the meaning of these strings of letters nor of the sequences of words forming sentences and the whole document.

If at least the words had concepts attached, for a machine it might become much more simple to figure out the content of the whole document. Also since the words theirselves are somewhat related to each other by the underlaying grammar.

To get at least the content of the words accessible, an approach could be to integrate a request for explanation mechanism into the spell checker framework: If the content of the word typed-in is unknown, the user should explain it.

      
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