This paper, based on philosophy of language and computational linguistics, proposes a framework that relates many diverse symbol systems for representation of the same structure from different disciplines to each other. The framework classifies the symbol systems into three classes, namely, surface language, universal language, and a formal structure. A surface language is a conventional symbol system used in architectural design. A universal language represents, the senses of a surface language expression, an ontology characterizing a domain, and transition in a formal structure. An example is shown to give a concrete idea about the framework. The author expects the proposed framework provide a theoretical foundation for multi-disciplinary architectural design support systems.
