The principle challenge for information semantics lies in the degrees of freedom to interpret
symbols in terms of thoughts and experiences which leads to incompatible views on the
world. Consequently, incompatible information ontologies and interpretations of the
described data will remain. Even though there is usually a common experiential ground, it
stays often unknown to users of semantically annotated data. This symbol grounding
problem is a bottleneck of information semantics, which remains largely unsolved in …