The comprehension of a text performed by a linguistic analysis engine is only a simulation of some aspects of human comprehension, therefore the automatic process and the human process cannot be considered equivalent.  No one knows yet how human comprehension really works (and it seems we are still far from knowing it), therefore we are not able to reproduce it with a software, even in absence of other obstacles.

When I started to think about COGITO^® and automatic comprehension of texts, I selected some aspects of the wider process of human comprehension. Then, with the agreement of engineers, programmers, mathematicians and linguists, I focused on the following:

• analysis of the context and the structure in order to perform the most accurate  disambiguation of the meaning of words having more than one meaning. Identifying the right meaning of words is fundamental to “understanding” the subject of the text;
• analysis of the logical structure of the sentences in order to identify the most relevant elements in the document;
• algorithms to identify the expressive structures that, when recognized, can infer important information from the content.