John Lakos presents “Value Semantics: It ain’t about the syntax!” at C++Now 2014 Bloomberg’s John Lakos, senior architect of BDE, will lead a session at this year’s C++Now conference on the importance of a type’s salient attributes and how they relate to its usage as a value semantic type . When people talk about a type as having value semantics, they are often thinking about…
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Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples. If you have new APIs, clients, or source code examples to add to ProgrammableWeb’s directories, we offer forms (APIs, Clients, Source Code) for submitting them to our API research…
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Recommended Textbooks for Formal Semantics (Partee) The following post is taken from an interview with Barbara Hall Partee by Chongli Zou. The full transcript is here: . – (1) Emmon Bach’s informal introduction to the field, which relates some of the more technical material found in other books to more intuitively graspable ideas: (Bach 1989), based on his 1984 series of lectures…
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Elements of Formal Semantics introduces some of the foundational concepts, principles and techniques in formal semantics of natural language. The book is intended for readers who have some elementary background in set theory and linguistics, but it does not assume any expertise in logic, math, or theoretical linguistics. By way of analyzing concrete English examples, the book…
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In linguistics, meaning is what the source or sender expresses, communicates, or conveys in their message to the observer or receiver, and what the receiver infers from the current context. The sources of ambiguity [edit] Ambiguity means confusion about what is conveyed, since the current context may lead to different interpretations of meaning. Many words in many languages…
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In computer science, denotational semantics (initially known as mathematical semantics or Scott–Strachey semantics) is an approach of formalizing the meanings of programming languages by constructing mathematical objects (called denotations ) that describe the meanings of expressions from the languages. Other approaches to providing formal semantics of programming languages…
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Semantics is one of the most distinctive features of the Web Platform versus other application platforms. Developers usually ignore or de-prioritize such feature but the mastery of it can bring many benefits to our projects. The Web is text and text has a meaning. Ultimately the content that our browsers read is pure text. Web sites and web applications have been created in…
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A new PoolParty Thesaurus Manager (PPT) release is available now: Version 3.1.0 is a major release offering lots of great new funcitionalities and improvements and of course also some fixes. The main new features are: Autopopulation of Thesauri from DBpediaDBpedia is a project aiming to extract structured information from the information created as part of the Wikipedia project…
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Montague Grammar, Montague Semantics, natural language, lexical meaning, unanalyzed basic expressions Disciplines Electrical and Computer Engineering Description/Abstract The linguistic theory of Richard Montague (variously referred to as Montague Grammar or Montague Semantics) provides a comprehensive formalized account of natural language semantics. It appears to be particularly…
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Is a series of conferences concerned with intelligent approaches to transform the World Wide Web into a global reasoning and semantics-driven computing machine. The purpose of the WIMS series is: To provide a forum for established researchers and practitioners to present past and current research contributing to the state of the art of Web technology research and applications…
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Semantic memory refers to a portion of long-term memory that processes ideas and concepts that are not drawn from personal experience. Semantic memory includes things that are common knowledge, such as the names of colors, the sounds of letters, the capitals of countries and other basic facts acquired over a lifetime. The concept of semantic memory is fairly new. It was introduced…
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PoolParty PowerTagging analyzes documents and content from Enterprise Content Platforms like Confluence, Drupal, Alfresco, WordPress or Sharepoint. PowerTagging annotates content automatically and consistently with concepts from controlled Thesauri are used to create controlled vocabularies. They describe concepts, labels and synonyms as well as relations between concepts in…
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The Journal of Web Semantics seeks submissions of original research papers for a special issue on machine learning and data mining for the Semantic Web dealing with analytical, theoretical, empirical, and practical aspects of machine learning and data mining for all areas of the Semantic Web. Submissions are due by by Feb 15, 2015. In the last years, machine learning, as well…
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WordPress 3.6 introduced HTML5 versions of popular template tags, starting out with comments, the comment form, and the search form. With the 3.9 release we add galleries and captions to that list. Now, when adding HTML5 support for those features, WordPress will use and elements, instead of the generic definition list markup. To declare that your theme supports these new HTML5…
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As the quantity and diversity of relevant data grows within and outside the enterprise, how can IT easily deploy secure governed solutions that allow business users to identify, extract, link together and derive value from the right data at the right time, at big data scale, while keeping up with ever changing business needs? Anzo Smart Data solutions allow IT departments and…
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Use of Internet becomes more popular in India to avail the information needs. A major area of Information browsing includes education, Medical, Agriculture, Geographical, Business and other social domains. Availability of electronic documents for Indian Language is growing day by day. The people living throughout India speak different languages. The government of India has…
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HTML5 brings a host of new elements and attributes to allow developers to make their documents more easily understood by other systems (especially search engines!), display data more uniquely, and take on some of the load that has required complex JavaScript or browser plug-ins like Flash and Silverlight to handle. Here are 10 new items in HTML5 that will make it easier for…
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Product semantics redirects here. The semantic turn refers to a paradigm shift in the design of artifacts – industrial, graphic, informational, architectural, and social – from an emphasis on how artifacts ought to function to what they mean to those affected by them – semantics being a concern for meaning. It provides a new foundation for professional design, a detailed…
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