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In Semantics of Memory Management for Polymorphic Languages (1997) Greg Morrisett and Robert Harper present a static and dynamic semantics for an abstract machine that evaluates expressions of a polymorphic programming language. Unlike traditional semantics, our abstract machine exposes many important issues of memory management, such as value sharing and control representation…
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This book presents a unique approach to the semantics of verbs. It develops and specifies a decompositional representation framework for verbal semantics that is based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the graphical lingua franca for the design and modeling of object-oriented systems in computer science. The new framework combines formal precision with conceptual flexibility…
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HTML5 comes with a bunch of new elements and more will be recommended in the future. However, there are some elements that might be a little confusing in their implementation, including the following two new elements: and . Some most frequently asked question I found in the forums are: In what circumstances should we use these elements? And similarly How do we use this elements…
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In week 4, it s all about visual syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. What do these three concepts mean? First and foremost, the definition of syntax according to Robert Valin Jr. (2001) which is also known assyntaxisin Ancient Greek, is a verbal noun which literally means arrangement or setting out together of words that are arranged to show connections of meaning. In other…
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Semantics can be defined as the study of the meaning of morphemes, words, phrases and sentences. You will sometimes see definitions for semantics like the analysis of meaning,To see why this is too broad, consider the following. Kim, returning home after a long day, discovers that the new puppy has crapped on the rug, and says Oh, lovely. We don t normally take this to…
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We doctors are a bunch of chums using HTML5 and writing about how we do it. Apart from spurious requests for medical advice, the questions we receive most are about using the section element, and we realise that we’ve been using the section element incorrectly all this time. Sorry. What we’ve been doing wrong is using section to wrap content in order to style it, or to demarcate…
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Putcha Narasimham Serge: A good explanation covering basic and advanced concepts of ontologies and their applications. I note that relation is considered a property of subject. However the RDF triples show the predicate (the relation or a link) as an independent element. I see a lot of advantage of treating LINK also as an independent full-fledged object with its own properties…
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This is the fifth in a series introducing the activity model in the Unified Modeling Language, version 2 (UML 2), and how it integrates with the action model [1]. The first article gives an overview of activities and actions [2], while the next three cover actions generally, control nodes, and object nodes. This one describes partitions, which are a way of grouping actions…
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Description: Linguistics and Philosophy focuses on issues related to structure and meaning in natural language, as addressed in the philosophy of language, linguistic semantics, syntax and related disciplines, in particular the following areas: — philosophical theories of meaning and truth, reference, description, entailment, presupposition, implicatures, context-dependence…
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MOVED UP FROM MARCH 9. I HAVE MOVED THIS POST UP BECAUSE THE COMMENTS THREAD REMAINS QUITE ACTIVE, AND I HAVE RECEIVED MANY E-MAILS ABOUT IT. Like any area of philosophy, there are researchers in philosophy of language with very different conceptions of what it is. One project in the philosophy of language centrally involves the thesis of deflationism about the semantic notions…
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There are an awful lot of things in this country that I think would be much better off if the government stayed out of them. The United States Postal Service is point one. I hate the USPS, I much prefer UPS or FedEx. But that’s not what I’m here to talk about. One of the other things that I strongly believe the government should stay out of is marriage. Yeah, you heard me right…
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Applies To: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 Before you deploy Server for NFS (the NFS server implementation that is included with Windows server operating systems), you should be aware of the semantic differences between Microsoft® Windows®-based operating systems and UNIX-based operating systems. The semantic differences described in this…
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Tl;dr- It’s usually safe to substitute the phrase behaviors and guarantees into a sentence where you see the word “semantics”–and the discussion is about programming. Longer version: New programmers often come across the word semantics, and wonder what it means. Pretty much every explanation they will read points out the distinction between syntax (form) and semantics (meaning)…
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There are two types of ambiguity: Genuine ambiguities, where a sentence really can have two different meanings to an intelligent hearer, and computer ambiguities, where the meaning is entirely clear to a hearer but a computer detects more than one meaning. Genuine ambiguity is not a serious problem for NLP problems; it s comparatively rare, and you can t expect computers…
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Date: 11-Jan-2014 From: Esther Nunez Subject: A Cognitive Linguistics View of Terminology and Specialized Language Book announced at EDITOR: Pamela Faber TITLE: A Cognitive Linguistics View of Terminology and Specialized Language SERIES TITLE: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] 20 PUBLISHER: De Gruyter Mouton YEAR: 2012 REVIEWER: Esther Nunez, (personal interest…
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Linguistic meaning and its role in communication. Topics include ambiguity, vagueness, presupposition, intonational meaning, and Grice s theory of conversational implicature. Applications to issues in politics, the law, philosophy, advertising, and natural language processing. Those who have not taken logic, such as PHIL 150 or 151, should also enroll in 130C. Pre- or corequisite:…
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