Natural Language Input, Semantic Track Representation, and LLM Inference: Making the Maritime Information Exchange Model Tractable

Abstract

We describe a practical architecture for making the Maritime Information Exchange Model (MIEM) and the broader Rich Semantic Track model tractable using current large language model (LLM) technology. The barrier to adoption of semantic track models in defense and law enforcement has been the requirement that operators learn formal ontology languages and manually encode observations as typed logical assertions. We propose eliminating this barrier entirely: operators contribute observations in natural language; an LLM translates these into typed Semantic Assertion Records (SARs), which are named case frames that capture n-ary relations in a single compact structure; a knowledge graph accumulates the SARs; and a second LLM pass performs inference, anomaly detection, and hypothesis ranking over the graph. We work through two detailed examples (a 9/11-era pre-attack indicator scenario and a maritime cargo inspection scenario) showing the full pipeline from natural language input to SAR representation to inference output. We argue that this architecture makes the Track Model and MIEM immediately deployable with current technology, establishes prior art against proprietary enclosure of the approach, and grounds the method in a theoretical framework connecting semantic track representations to neural manifold geometry.