Multilingual Information Processing using EPICS

This paper proposes a character or symbol code system called EPICS for multilingual information processing and discusses its applications. EPICS integrates a variable-length coding system using 16bit units and a smart virtual machine. The variablelength coding system provides a huge code space. This huge space can include not only standardized code sets but also non-standardized codes of userspecific symbols. The smart virtual machine allows us to define and modify instructions during runtime and provides us with customization facilities. Customization facilities can be used to specify a sorting order and normalization. Customization also enables an information producer (sender) to express his intentions or annotations in data, and an information consumer (receiver) to process the data depending on his needs.