1. A method of modifying a computer-readable elemental data structure of a knowledge representation system, the method comprising: applying, using at least one processor executing stored program instructions, one or more rules of analysis to deconstruct a knowledge representation into one or more elemental components; adding, using at least one processor executing stored program instructions, data associated with the one or more elemental components to an elemental data structure, the elemental data structure storing data representing concepts and concept relationships; inferring, using at least one processor executing stored program instructions, candidate data associated with the elemental data structure, wherein the inferring comprises detecting language in reference data, wherein the language corresponds to a predetermined linguistic pattern expressing a relationship between at least a first concept and a second concept in natural language; modifying the elemental data structure to combine the candidate data and the data associated with the one or more elemental components, wherein the modifying comprises adding, to the elemental data structure, the first concept, the second concept, and/or the relationship between the first and second concepts expressed by the linguistic pattern detected in the reference data, wherein the reference data is obtained from a source other than the knowledge representation wherein the detected linguistic pattern expresses in natural language that the second concept subsumes the first concept; wherein detecting the language corresponding to the predetermined linguistic pattern comprises detecting in the reference data a first label associated with the first concept, followed by a subsumptive expression, followed by a second label associated with the second concept, wherein the linguistic pattern including the subsumptive expression expresses in natural language that the second concept subsumes the first concept; wherein the subsumptive expression comprises at least one of one or more predetermined words or one or more predetermined symbols; wherein detecting the predetermined linguistic pattern in the reference data comprises detecting in the reference data the first label associated with the first concept and the second label associated with the second concept, wherein a proximity of the first label to the second label is within a threshold proximity; wherein the one or more elemental components are encoded as one or more computer-readable data structures storing data associated with the one or more elemental components, and wherein the reference data is encoded as one or more computer-readable data structures storing data associated with reference communication.