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The enabling IEML technology for the generation of semantic tag clouds is the USL. An USL is a collection of sets of IEML *tags at each of the 6 different layers. Each *tag implies a set of semantic relationships with other *tags; at every layer a USL thus expresses a combination of the semantics of many *tags. At the most basic level, therefore, USLs are already small tag clouds really.

Let us try to understand what meaning does the addition of multiple *tags at each layer bear for us.

What do multiple level 0 elements mean?

This is a trivial case, because level 0 elements, by definition, have no semantic relationships to other elements. In addition, level 0 elements in the context of a USL represent “networks of Collective Intelligence”, and thus, by tagging a resource with multiple such elements, a user exactly means that the resource participates in multiple such networks.

What do multiple level 1 elements mean?

Things get a little bit more interesting here. Every level 1 element can be either nounish or verbish. A verbish expression is going to be either en energy or an act. A nounish expression can be a mutation or an entity. There is also a obvious symmetry between acts (O:M:.) and mutations (M:O:.). Finally, the categories O:M:., M:O:., M:M:. and O:O:. all have etymologic relationships with both their first and second role players. Let’s see how we could visualize these relationships for just one IEML * tag of layer 1:

Now consider another semantic relationships graph:

Imagine that some resource was tagged with these two *tags (this one might be a good candidate), i.e. want and perceive; what can we already conclude by examining their semantic graphs? These are very short graphs, of course, but counting the number of arrows between concepts, the Verbs one is certainly the most common destination. It means that, from just two *tags, we can already conclude that this resource will add a mostly verbish coloration to the tag cloud to which it would participate.