A system to convert sequences of words, along with concurrent non-verbal data, into thought representations, said system being used in association with a language understanding system, where words to thought transformation is needed, is disclosed. Said system comprises: an entity look-up subsystem that comprises: a pre-processing unit, a word database, and a cache; a controller or thought representation formation and reasoning unit; a multi-word entities buffer; an entity knowledge base; a predictive word meaning memory; and an output thought representation unit.