  The representation of sentences is a very important task. It can be used as a
way to exchange data inter-applications. One main characteristic, that a
notation must have, is a minimal size and a representative form. This can
reduce the transfer time, and hopefully the processing time as well.
  Usually, sentence representation is associated to the processed language. The
grammar of this language affects how we represent the sentence. To avoid
language-dependent notations, we have to come up with a new representation
which don't use words, but their meanings. This can be done using a lexicon
like wordnet, instead of words we use their synsets. As for syntactic
relations, they have to be universal as much as possible.
  Our new notation is called STON "SenTences Object Notation", which somehow
has similarities to JSON. It is meant to be minimal, representative and
language-independent syntactic representation. Also, we want it to be readable
and easy to be created. This simplifies developing simple automatic generators
and creating test banks manually. Its benefit is to be used as a medium between
different parts of applications like: text summarization, language translation,
etc. The notation is based on 4 languages: Arabic, English, Franch and
Japanese; and there are some cases where these languages don't agree on one
representation. Also, given the diversity of grammatical structure of different
world languages, this annotation may fail for some languages which allows more
future improvements.
